Jaito: Punjab police Deputy superintendent of police Baljinder Singh Sandhu died of a bullet injury allegedly fired from his licensed pistol during a student protest at Jaitu, 35 km from Faridkot, on Monday.
Another police personnel was injured in the incident as the bullet fired by Sandhu pierced his head to hit him. The DSP and the police personnel accompanying him, who was injured critically by the same bullet, were rushed to Guru Gobind Singh Medical Hospital in Faridkot.
The DSP was at the University College, where students had gathered to protest a recent incident of moral policing. The students were raising slogans against the police and calling for ‘azaadi (freedom)’ when the DSP warned them against doing so. This angered the students further and in the commotion a gunshot was heard.
