Magistrate grilled over wife’s murder

IANS/Gurgaon

Gurgaon’s chief judicial magistrate, Ravneet Garg, booked for the murder of his wife, was questioned for more than four hours, police said yesterday.

A special investigation team (SIT), set to probe the death of Garg’s wife Geetanjali, questioned him at the assistant commissioner of police’s (ACP) office in Palam Vihar till Saturday midnight. However, the four-member SIT failed to find anything even five days after the murder.

The team had to submit its primary report within two days of its formation on July 18. “The SIT yesterday questioned two female relatives of Garg for hours at his government allotted house here in the Officers Colony,” said a senior police officer.

One of them was identified by Geetanjali’s father, Om Prakash Aggarwal, as someone who could throw light on the incident as he was present in Garg’s house then.

A team of ballistic experts yesterday also examined the spot in Police Lines, where Geetanjali’s body was found, for three bullets that were fired at her from Garg’s licensed revolver.

The weapon was found near the body.

Geetanjali, 24, bore three bullet wounds - on her chin, chest and stomach - but bullets were not found in the body.

Geetanjali’s brother Pradeep Aggarwal Saturday lodged a first information report against Garg and his parents K K Garg and Rachna Garg, accusing them of murder.

“Ravneet and Geetanjali got married November 2007. Everything was fine for a few years but the attitude of Ravneet and his parents towards Geetanjali started changing after she delivered two baby girls (now aged around four-and-a-half and three years),” Aggarwal said in his complaint. He demanded a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into his sister’s murder.