Gurugram, Aug 9 (IANS) A 29-year-old man was found dead at an "ahata" with a gunshot wound in Sector-57 area on Monday morning in Gurugram, the police said.
The police identified the victim as Phool Kumar of Charkhi Dadri who used to work at the ahata owned by Anil Kumar.
According to the police, following information police reached the spot and took custody of the body and also detained the ahata operator Anil Kumar for questioning.
"The body has been sent for an autopsy. The police are investigating the matter to ascertain the reason behind the incident," Subhash Boken, spokesperson of the Gurugram police, said.
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Badal on Thursday demanded a high court monitored probe into the manner in which the Congress government in Punjab was playing with the people's lives by creating an artificial shortage of vaccines by selling vaccine doses at a hefty profit to private hospitals.
The electronic conversation took place as US President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that India will receive Covid vaccines directly from the US stockpile, the White House said.
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General M.M. Naravane, reached Kashmir on Wednesday on a two-day visit to review the prevailing security situation in the Union Territory (UT), the army said in a statement.
"There have been several unfounded media reports that have peddled misinformation among the masses regarding this exercise of national importance," a ministry statement said, adding that the total number of Covid vaccine doses administered in the country so far stand at 21,85,46,667.
The Congress said that it was "appropriate for our initial statement to note that the intrusion by Israeli forces into the Holy Al Aqsa mosque during Ramzan prayers had ruptured the delicate peace in the region".
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday suggested the young patients should be prioritised in the distribution of Liposomal Amphotericin B drug, used for treating black fungus, "as they hold promise of future over the older ones who have lived their lives".
