Bhatinda Army jawan killed Four colleagues over personal enmity

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ An Army jawan has been arrested for allegedly killing four soldiers at the Bathinda Military Station with a stolen assault rifle, an official said on Monday. Gunner Desai Mohan had earlier claimed that he saw two men with a rifle and an axe near the site of the firing at the military base in Punjab. Later, he confessed to the killings, Bathinda Senior Superintendent of Police Gulneet Singh Khurana said.

Asked about the reason behind the killing, Khurana said that it cannot be disclosed before the media but Mohan had some personal enmity with the four soldiers. On April 12, Mohan said he saw two unidentified men, their faces and heads covered with cloth, coming out of the barracks after the firing. However, he kept changing his statements, the SSP said.

After committing the crime, he concocted the story having seen two persons in ‘kurta-pyjama’, the officer said. In a statement, the Army said, “After sustained interrogation, one individual named Gunner Desai Mohan, from the artillery unit where the incident occurred has confessed to his involvement in stealing an INSAS rifle and killing four of his colleagues to the police,” the Army said.