CBI clueless in judge’s wife murder even after a year

The CBI has not been able to solve the murder of Geetanjali Garg, wife of former Gurgaon chief judicial magistrate Ravneet Garg, even a year after the incident.

Geetanjali’s father O.P. Aggarwal has now approached Prime Minister Narendra Modi for speedy justice for his daughter.

The 27-year-old Geetanjali was found dead in a park in the high-security police lines area July 17 last year. Her body had three bullet wounds. The post-mortem report said one bullet hit her stomach while another hit her chin and pierced through her head and the third bullet injured her neck minutely. Geetanjali’s family accused Garg of killing her with his family’s help after harassing her for dowry.

The Haryana government ordered an inquiry by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) 15 days after the incident. The CBI filed a case on charges of murder and other sections of the Indian Penal Code, and named Garg and his parents as the accused. Geetanjali’s family on Thursday said there has been no headway in the case even after a year. ‘Despite enough proof, the accused is being shielded,’ Aggarwal wrote in a letter to Modi.

‘My daughter (Geetanjali) was murdered by her husband with a revolver registered in his name. He tried to hush up the matter and destroy evidence in connivance with the police in Gurgaon,’ he said.