The apex body of cooperatives National Cooperative Union of India (NCUI) was in news for all the wrong reasons. There was a shootout in its campus at 9.15 pm on Saturday evening leading to questions about the security of the campus.
Police call it fallout of an alleged love triangle between the victim woman, her estranged husband and her boyfriend. The woman, Janmoni Dutta, said that her boyfriend, Kajal Jatin Sarkar, pulled out a pistol in a fit of rage and shot her and her husband, Rajender. He then panicked and shot himself in the chest. Luckily, cops in a PCR van passing by heard the gunshots and rushed them to AIIMS Trauma Center.
Dutta had come to Delhi from Dibrugarh a month ago to pursue a diploma course in cooperative management. She had married Rajender in a temple in 2009, but they started staying separately owing to differences between their families. Rajender, who works at a private firm in north Bengal, had been avoiding Dutta. When she sought a divorce from him a few months ago, he refused.
After reaching Delhi, Dutta changed her phone number to avoid talking to Rajender. However, he contacted her friends to urge her into continuing their relationship.
Dutta met Sarkar, a call centre employee, on Facebook and they were seeing each other for the past five months. In fact, Sarkar had persuaded her to take up the course at NCUI. Kajal Sarkar, the 32-year-old accused, is the son of a CISF constable.
The woman had come to the Capital last month and enrolled herself in a three-month course at the NCUI training centre, said its Chief Executive N Satyanarayan to media.