An uncle of suspended policeman Mahipal, who allegedly shot dead his protectee judge's wife and critically injured their son, Monday said that he possibly took the extreme step in fury over denial of his repeated pleas for leave to attend on his seriously ill, 7-year-old daughter.
Suspended Head Constable Mahipal's uncle Daan Singh also accused Additional Session Judge Krishan Kant and his family members of mistreating him for resenting their orders to run their errands.
"My nephew Mahipal's 7-year-old daughter was seriously ill and needed urgent treatment. On the fateful day, he had received repeated calls from his wife to reach home early to take his daughter to a doctor and he had repeatedly asked for an early leave," Daan told TV news channels at his home town Rewari.
"But the judge rebuked him and asked him to take his wife and daughter for shopping instead, possibly frustrating him," Singh said.
Admitting that Mahipal's gruesome crime cannot be justified, Singh appealed to higher-ups in police to keep these circumstances behind the offence in mind while investigating it.
Singh also said Mahipal's wife and children, besides his ailing mother and brother-in-law too have been taken away by the police.
Singh said, "The medical prescription of his daughter illness is available with us. It was also shown to the police when they came to his flat at Gurgaon police lines. But they took away all family members to an undisclosed location."
Meanwhile, Gurgaon ACP Dharna Yadav, who is probing into the sensational murder case as part of an SIT, said, "We are doing fair investigation from all angles. The concrete reasons of murder have not emerged so far."
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