A 61-year-old doctor was shot dead at his clinic in south-west Delhi’s Palam area on Saturday. The assailant is unidentified.
A 61-year-old doctor was shot dead at his clinic in south-west Delhi’s Palam area on Saturday. The assailant is unidentified.
The victim has been identified as Balwant Singh, a general physician who has a clinic at Palam village.
The victim was getting some renovation done in his single-room clinic and, as he was about to leave for home after the workers left at around 10 pm on Friday, a person approached him, suddenly opened fired at him and fled, a senior police official said.
Police teams rushed to the spot and the victim was taken to a hospital where he succumbed to his injuries during treatment.
A case of murder was registered against unidentified persons. Efforts are on to catch the accused, DCP (Southwest) Surender Kumar said.
Prima facie it is a case of personal enmity. Singh had huge debts after he took loans for the marriage of his two daughters. His son, who too got married recently, didn’t contribute much financially and Singh was the family’s sole bread-earner, the police said.
Singh also had a dispute with his brothers over division of parental property. All his brothers live in Palam area, an official privy to the investigation said.
