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A peek into mind of cop who killed Judge’s wife and son


Mangalore Today News Network

Gurugram, Oct 16, 2018 : Mahipal Singh (32), the constable who shot the wife and son of a trial court judge in a busy Gurugram street on Saturday, was born in and lived through a troubled family life.

 

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News18 visited places where he grew up, where he relocated eight years ago, and spoke to his family and others who knew him closely, in an attempt to understand what provoked him to murder the people he was duty bound to protect.

None of his family members, friends, acquaintances and neighbours can ever recall any aggressive behaviour by him. His friends and acquaintances also said that four years ago, he broke ties with many in his family after they objected to his conversion to Christianity.

His relatives told News18 that his father was an alcoholic who regularly abused his wife.

She went through two painful miscarriages because of her husband. Right after Mahipal, their only child, was born, his mother decided to leave the house and live with her immediate family in Kosli village, roughly 90 kilometers from Bhungarka, where the paternal side of the family lived.

“I have raised Mahipal ever since he was merely 70 days old. During his childhood, we did not tell him much about his father. We only took him to Bhungarka once a year to his paternal relatives,” said Dan Singh, Mahipal’s maternal uncle, who took care of his education.

Mahipal joined Haryana Police in 2007 and his father passed away the same day that he made it to the merit list. (Photo: News18)

Difficulties for Mahipal continued when his father passed away on the day he made it to the merit list of Haryana Police in 2007. A year later, now a head constable, he married Vikas Devi.

As happened with his parents, his marriage too fell apart. At least initially. His wife went back to her mother’s house immediately after tying the knot, after some disputes with her husband.

However, she later returned after their relatives intervened. Perhaps to turn a fresh page in his life, Mahipal moved to a new place in Gurugram with his wife and mother in 2010.

But going by what most his neighbours at police lines in Gurugram told News18, Singh could never find peace in marriage. Several of his neighbours not wishing their names to be revealed, told News18 that their domestic disputes were loud and clear to them.

"We could often hear his wife Meenu shouting at him. Mahipal, however, seldom raised his voice,” said one of the neighbours.

Several others reiterated incidents of loud fights between them every day after he returned home from work. The couple lived with their two daughters and Mahipal’s mother.

In 2014, Mahipal took another significant decision in his life when he changed his religion to Christianity. Several of his relatives resisted his conversion, after which he stopped visiting his paternal relatives in Bhungarka and only visited Kosli, where he grew up, once in a while.

He didn’t sleep for three to four nights before October 14, when he shot the wife and son of additional sessions judge Krishan Kant Garg, his friends said. They said, “Mahipal had become quite morose during this period.”


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