Jain temple trustee, wife shot dead in Chhattisgarh

RAIPUR/DURG: Chhattisgarh’s Parshwa Teerth

Jain

Temple, Nagpura’s chief trustee and social worker

Rawalmal Jain

and his wife were shot dead by unidentified persons at their residence in

Durg

city early on Monday morning.

Police said both of them were found dead on the ground floor of their house in Durg city. Other family members were on the first floor of the house.

Police suspect that the incident took place around 6am and the assailant had entered the house through back door. Rawalmal Jain’s body was found lying in a pool of blood near a door while the body of his wife

Surji Bai

(65) was lying on a cot.

Besides being the chief trustee of the Jain temple, Rawalmal Jain (75) was closely associated with the management of the Parshwa Teerth temple. Senior police officials have reached the spot. Further details are awaited.