Nishant Shoree

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[Ayushi Agarwal @ayu_agarwal94]

Punjab Police has taken cognisance of news reports and social media posts referring to the alleged nomination of Inspector Gurinderjit Singh Nagra, presently posted as SHO, Police Station Tanda, District Hoshiarpur, in connection with an extortion-related investigation reportedly undertaken by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), USA, under “Operation Hardball.”

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Her name was Neha Shoree.

She was a drug inspector in Punjab.

In 2009, while posted in Ropar, she raided a chemist shop run by a man named Balwinder Singh.

During the inspection, she found dozens of types of tablets commonly misused by drug addicts. According to official records, he could not produce the required documents for them.

She cancelled his licence.

Then she moved on and continued doing her job.

By 2016, Neha Shoree had become the zonal licensing authority at a government drug laboratory in Kharar, near Mohali.

She was thirty six years old.

She had a young daughter at home. Her father was a retired Army captain who had fought in the 1971 war.

The man whose licence she had cancelled never forgot what had happened.

On the morning of March 29, 2019, Balwinder Singh walked into her office in Kharar carrying a licensed revolver.

He shot her inside her workplace.

Neha Shoree was rushed towards a hospital but died on the way.

The gunman then turned the weapon on himself and died soon afterwards.

According to the police, she had been due to testify against him in court.

Ten years had passed since the raid.

Ten years after she enforced the law, he came back for revenge.

Her father later said that his daughter had lived under pressure for years because of her work, but she never compromised and never backed down.

She was killed for doing exactly what the job had asked her to do.

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