Chandigarh, Feb. 13 -- On March 29, 2019, Neha Shoree, the then zonal licensing authority of the food and drug administration, Punjab, was in her office when a man walked in and pumped multiple bullets into her, killing her on the spot. The accused, later identified as Balwinder Singh, a chemist whose shop had been shut over a decade earlier at Shoree's orders, then turned the gun on himself and ended his life. Subsequent investigations revealed that he had acquired an arms licence barely 15 days earlier.

On August 3, 2024, former Punjab Police AIG Malvinder Singh Sidhu shot dead his son-in-law, Harpreet Singh, a 2011-batch ICAS officer, with his licensed .32-bore pistol at the district courts complex in Sector 43, Chandigarh, amid the l...