The incident occurred at a water plant in the Haiderpur area of Delhi. (Representational)
A Sikkim Police personnel, posted in New Delhi, today shot dead three of his colleagues after they allegedly made offensive remarks about his wife. The incident occurred at a water plant in the Haiderpur area of Delhi.
The accused, Prabin Rai, has surrendered to the police.
The personnel had been deployed at the water plant for its security as part of the Indian Reserve Battalion.
"Upon reaching the spot, it was found that three persons belonging to Sikkim Police had been shot, of which two had died on the spot and one was critically wounded and transferred to BSA hospital where he was declared brought dead," Deputy Commissioner of Police (Rohini) Pranav Tayal said.
Special Commissioner of Police (Law & Order) Dependra Pathak said that Rai told the police during initial investigation his three colleagues caused him mental harassment by saying "untoward things" about his wife.
The incident comes just days after two major fratricide incidents in Jammu and Kashmir. An Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) jawan shot at and injured his three colleagues on Saturday before shooting himself dead in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur district.
In a separate fratricide incident, two Army jawans were killed and two others injured in Poonch.