GURGAON: Five days after the body of Geetanjali Garg, wife of Gurgaon chief judicial magistrate Ravneet Garg, was found in a park, police have recovered shells of two of the three bullets which pierced through her body.
Gurgaon police commissioner Alok Mittal on Monday said, "Two of the bullets which had hit Geetanjali were recovered from the scene of crime. On Monday, the SIT questioned K K Garg, father of Ravneet Garg."
Meanwhile, in its supplementary complaint, Geetanjali's family has alleged that her in-laws used to "torture her for dowry". But despite the supplementary complaint, Gurgaon police have so far not added any new section of IPC against the accused.
"At present the FIR includes only Section 302 (murder) and Section 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention). As per the supplementary complaint, if dowry related Sections 498a 498A (husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty) and 304B (dowry death) are included the case will become much stronger. I don't know why it is not being done," said a mid-level police officer on condition of anonymity.
But senior police officers had a different take on the subject. When asked, Mittal said, "We shall also call the family of the deceased with supporting evidence of all the charges. We have taken the supplementary statement on record. "We are asking for call detail reports of Geetanjali's mobile phone. We are seeking for the report of ballistic experts."
SIT head ACP Ashok Bakshi grilled the CJM and his family members on Saturday and Sunday. Bakshi said the probe is moving in right direction and there would some breakthrough.
One of the investigators told TOI that the scene of crime might have been tampered with. "There are no blood stains on the spot. Even though two bullets have been found, it seems that there is more to the story than meets the eye," he said. However, top cops refused to comment on the issue.
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