New Delhi:
In a shocking incident, a woman dancer has been shot dead on stage during a wedding function in Bhatinda, Punjab.
Allegedly the shooter was drunk when he shot 22-year old after she refused to dance with him.
The dancer named Kulwinder Kaur was performing with her dance troop at the marriage function of a local commission agent’s son in Maur.
The incident has been recorded on the camera and the video shows that Kulwinder was shot at from close range and she immediately collapsed on the stage.
A group of the groom’s friends, who were allegedly drunk, were firing in the air and tried to come on to the stage to join the dancers, police said.
On being prevented from dancing on stage, one of the men from the group, Billa, allegedly opened fire with his .12 bore gun, hitting Kulwinder in her head.
SSP Bathinda Daljeet Singh said that the accused was under the influence of alcohol. He is on the run and police is trying to trace him.
“She died on the way to hospital,” Bathinda DSP (Maur) Davinder Singh said on Sunday.
A case has been registered against 4 people (Accused, his 2 friends & owner of banquet hall) under section 302.
