Three family members, including an elderly couple, were left unconscious after taking food spiked by the domestic help, who was hired three days earlier. The accused fled away after stealing valuables from the house in Sector 21. The victims are the in-laws of former Mohali Deputy Commissioner DS Mangat.
The police said the victims had been identified as KS Kang, his wife Satinder Kaur and their daughter-in-law Manpreet Kaur.
The accused has been identified as Ram Bahadur.
Inspector Daleep Rattan, SHO of the Sector 19 police station, said Kang’s daughter Ginni Mangat, who is married to DS Mangat and resides in Sector 33, called her mother around 9.30 pm.
Ginni told her mother that Manpreet was not taking the call. “Satinder told her that everyone had slept and she was feeling dizzy,” the SHO said.
The police said Ginni again called her mother and sister-in-law after an hour, but none of them received the calls. She got suspicious and rushed to her parent’s house in Sector 21.
On reaching, she found all doors locked from inside except one from where the accused had fled after stealing the valuables.
The elderly couple and their daughter-in-law were found unconscious following whichthe police were informed. A PCR team reached the spot and all three were rushed to Government Multi-Specialty Hospital, Sector 16, from where Satinder Kaur was referred to the PGI. The condition of Satinder is said to be serious and she is under observation.
The Kang family had asked a washerman to look for a servant. The police said the accused had approached the washerman, who further introduced him to the Kang family. The police said the family had not approached them for servant verification.
The Chandigarh Police had, earlier this year, arrested four persons who were accused of strangling a 58-year-old man to death and whose charred headless body was found in the forest area at Makhan Majra. The accused belonged to a gang that used to spike drinks with sleeping pills and rob bus passengers.
