Three members of Bathinda family found dead with bullet injuries in the head

Milk vendor informed police after finding state cooperative department employee, wife and daughter dead

Three members of a family were found dead at Kamla Nehru Colony in Bathinda on Monday morning.

Police outside the house of Charanjit Singh Khokhar, an employee of the state cooperative department, who was found dead along with his wife and daughter. All three had bullet injuries in the head. (Sanjeev Kumar/HT)

Superintendent of police Jaspal Singh said the three victims suffered bullet injuries in the head.

There was no attempt to rob the house, the SP said.

The dead were identified as Charanjit Singh Khokhar, 56, his wife Jaswinder Kaur, 49, and Simran Kaur, 20.

Police said the crime was reported by the milk vendor.

Khokar was an employee of the state cooperative department. The family lived in a three-storeyed house of a posh residential area in town.

Police are scanning CCTV footage of the locality.