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Orissa DIG's body taken to his village

His relatives demand CBI inquiry to nail the ``real killers''

PHOTO: PTI

FINAL JOURNEY: The mortal remains of Deputy Inspector-General of Police Jaswinder Singh being taken to his village Bondal in Hoshiarpur on Wednesday.

Hoshiarpur (Punjab) : A pall of gloom descended on Bodal village here, as the coffin carrying the body of Deputy Inspector-General of Police Jaswinder Singh was brought home today, two days after he was shot dead, allegedly by his personal security officer, in Orissa's Raygada district.

Tears streaming down their faces, his wife Paramjit Kaur, their twin sons Shubhkarman and Prabhsimran, mother-in- law Nasib Kaur, father-in-law Hazara Singh and other family members received the body at the police officer's ancestral village.

Villagers console family

People from Bodal and adjoining villages stood in solemn silence and some tried to console the family, which broke down on seeing the body.

Paramjit Kaur and Hazara Singh demanded a CBI inquiry to nail the ``real killers'' and said the statements of the Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and DGP Amarananda Pattnayak on the DIG's death disturbed them.

Earlier, some members of the slain DIG's family along with Senior Superintendent of Police R.N. Dhoke went to Jalandhar Cantonment to receive the coffin, which was flown in by a Border Security Force helicopter from New Delhi. — PTI

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