29-year-old sustains bullet injury, serious

A woman, Varsha Rani (29), suffered a gunshot injury under mysterious circumstances on the Tarn Taran road falling under Division B police station area here on late Tuesday evening.

The girl works in a private office near Gurdwara Shaheed Baba Deep Singh. She was rushed to a hospital where her condition is stated to be serious.

The police claimed that the girl shot herself in a suicide bid, but the family members alleged that she was shot at by a youth working in her office. The police have recovered the pistol and a probe was on.

The police were yet to register an FIR in this regard as statements of the victim’s family were still to be recorded. Harinder Singh, SHO, Division B police station, said they were working on both theories of suicide bid and murder attempt.

Varsha Rani, a resident of Bhai Manjh Singh Road, was employed at a private office near Shaheed Baba Deep Singh Gurdwara. His father Ashwani Kumar was a junk dealer. Saurabh, brother of the victim, said she has been working in the office for the past four years. He said Lovepreet Singh, a suspect, also works in the same office. The pistol used in the crime belonged to him.

The police said yesterday she was in the office when people heard a gunshot. They rushed to the office and found her injured with bullet injury and was immediately rushed to a hospital.