Tricity’s prominent businessman’s suicide note names senior officials of HPCL, UT Administration, Punjab Police

The suicide of a prominent businessman of Tricity, 75-year-old GS Chawla, late Wednesday has brought to the fore the functioning of an alleged oil mafia nexus that operates across the Tricity.

The suicide note by Chawla, carried in the FIR accessed by the Indian Express, has named several senior officials of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) and has alleged that they worked in cahoots with the Punjab Police and the Chandigarh administration to force him to “sell one of his petrol pumps situated near Daun village”.

The note read, “I have committed suicide due to harrasment by HPCL officials… By way of cheating and conspiracy they snatched my property, which was in the name of my wife Jagjeet Kaur Chawla at Daun on Chandigarh-Kharar road, with the help of Punjab Police …