- Saturday, March 01, 2025
By: Shubham Ghosh
A jawan of the Indian Army has been arrested in connection with the killing of four soldiers at a military station in Bathinda in the northern Indian state of Punjab, a senior official of the state police said on Monday (17).
Gulneet Singh Khurana, senior superintendent of police, identified the arrested soldier as Desai Mohan.
“The motive was personal. He had enmity with them,” he was quoted as saying by the PTI.
Four soldiers were killed in their sleep in firing inside the military station on Wednesday (12).
A first-information report (FIR) was lodged in this connection at the Bathinda Cantonment police station under section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code and relevant sections of the Arms Act against two unidentified persons.
It was Mohan who had said that he saw two unidentified men in white kurta-pyjamas, their faces and heads covered with cloth, coming out of the barracks after the firing.
One of them was carrying an INSAS rifle and the other an axe, the jawan had said in the police FIR.
The Bathinda military station is one of India’s largest army bases and comprises a significant number of operational units of the force.
(With PTI inputs)
