Tribune News Service

Panchkula, June 6

A 29-year-old man allegedly shot his younger brother dead using his licensed gun at Chunna Bhatti village in Chandimandir late last night.

The suspect, identified as Satnam Singh, subsequently filmed a confession video at the crime scene. The video is doing the rounds on social media platforms, including Facebook and WhatsApp.

Don’t want to live anymore: Suspect

In the video, the suspect is confessing to his crime. ‘’The government should hang me. If I had bullets, I would have killed myself,” he said in the video. In the background, the victim is also seen lying in a pool of blood on a cot.

According to the police, victim Ajit Singh (26) had asked his elder brother not to drink alcohol at home with his friend. Satnam felt humiliated and killed him.

The police said the brothers were unemployed and had been involved in domestic tensions for a long time. Satnam killed his brother in a fit of rage. Amarjeet Kaur, their mother and complainant in the case, told the police that her elder son Satnam arrived at the house last evening around 9 pm, along with a friend.

When Ajit Singh came to the house, he suspected that Satnam was taking alcohol with his friend in his room. Ajit asked his elder brother not to drink in the house. Later, Ajit went to speak with his father in another house.

Soon after, Satnam also left the house with his friend only to return an hour later.

“He (Satnam) went inside his room and locked the door. I too locked the door from outside in view of his short-tempered behaviour. Satnam then claimed his maternal cousins would come to the house soon and asked me to unlock the door. We both sat in the courtyard. Then Ajit came and ate dinner. He (Ajit) subsequently laid on a cot. As my younger son was using his phone, Satnam went back to his room to get a gun and fired two shots at Ajit’s head,” said the victim’s mother.

Amarjeet Kaur then ran to her husband Pritam Singh to narrate the incident. The couple immediately dialled the Police Control Room.

A PCR vehicle arrived at the spot, but the suspect had already fled away.

The victim was taken to the Civil Hospital with the help of neighbours where doctors declared him brought dead. A case has been registered under the Arms Act and Section 302 (murder) of the IPC at the Chandimandir police station.

Suspect arrested

• Assistant Commissioner of Police Raj Kumar said the suspect was arrested.
• Asked to confirm the veracity of the suspect’s confessional video, Kumar said it would be investigated.
• “As of now, it is unclear whether the suspect went live on Facebook after the crime or filmed the video before uploading it online,’’ he said.
• “The suspect, who is now unemployed, had worked as a security guard in a bank,’’ the police said.