DAYS AFTER a Mohali-based petrol pump owner died by suicide on Wednesday, the Punjab Petroleum Dealers Association on Saturday declared a one-day bandh call from 8 am to 5 pm on July 29. They also demanded an inquiry into the petrol pump owner’s death by a sitting judge of Punjab and Haryana High Court.
The association announced that they will also close petrol pumps on July 26 for half an hour on the day of the last rites of the deceased.
Jarnail Singh Garhdiwala, a senior member of the association, along with other members including Harpreet Bajwa, Kanwar Shamsher Singh Guman, Kultar Singh Sandhwan, and Surjit Singh Soeta, said that the allegations leveled by the deceased in his 9-page suicide note against officials of the Chandigarh administration, officials of the Petroleum Corporation and Punjab Police must be probed by a sitting judge of the High Court.
