National level shooter, Namanveer Singh Brar dies by suicide
New Delhi, September 14
National level shooter, Namanveer Singh Brar was found dead in Mohali on September 13 at his residence in Mohali of Punjab.
The Mohali police said that Singh died by suicide at his home in Sector 71 of the city.
The police said the primary investigation showed that the family is unaware the resons behind him taking an extreme step.
Brar’s elder sister Dr Prabhsukhman Brar is a trap shooter too, while his father is a businessman and mother Harpreet Brar a housewife. The family had shifted from Punjab’s Faridkot to Mohali in 2009.
Brar, who was earlier a student of Panjab University, had bagged the bronze along with Ankur Mittal and Asgar Hussein Khan in the double trap team event at the World University games at Gwangju, South Korea, in 2015.
The same year, he had won a bronze medal in the All India University Shooting Championship and the next year, Brar was once again part of the Indian team winning the bronze medal in the FISU World University Shooting Championship held in Poland.
The Mohali shooter practised at the Moti Bagh Shooting Range in Patiala. Earlier this year, Brar had competed in the Minimum Qualification Score category in the trap event in the ISSF Delhi World Cup held in March, where he finished fourth.
The police said his post mortem was conducted and they have registered a case of suicide adding further that they will record statements of his family and others after his last rites are performed.
