Chandigarh, Mar 24: The post-mortem examination of Gagandeep Singh Randhawa, an official of the warehousing corporation who died by suicide after accusing former Punjab minister Laljit Singh Bhullar of harassing him, will be conducted in Amritsar on Tuesday, police said.
The autopsy will be conducted at the post-mortem house of the government medical college in Amritsar, a police official told reporters.
The official claimed that Randhawa’s family has agreed for the post-mortem examination.
A board of doctors will conduct the autopsy, which will be videographed, under the supervision of the executive magistrate, the official said, Randhawa’s cremation will take place later in the day.
The development comes a day after ex-minister Bhullar was arrested from Mandi Gobindgarh on Monday.
Randhawa, the district manager of Punjab State Warehousing Corporation in Amritsar, allegedly ended his life by consuming poison early Saturday.
A video appeared in which he purportedly claimed harassment by Bhullar, who resigned as minister later in the day at the direction of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann amid the row.
The Amritsar police on Saturday night booked Bhullar, his father Sukhdev Singh Bhullar and personal assistant Dilbag Singh under Sections 108 (abetment of suicide), 351 (3) (criminal intimidation) and 3 (5) (common intention) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
Following Bhullar’s arrest, Randhawa’s family on Monday had demanded a CBI probe into the circumstances that led to the official’s death.
The family also sought that the post-mortem examination be conducted by a panel of doctors under the supervision of a judicial magistrate.
The suicide by Randhawa had triggered a political row with opposition parties taking on the Mann government and jointly holding a protest, demanding the arrest of Bhullar and a CBI probe into the matter.
