Just about two days after Punjab State Warehousing Corporation’s General Manager Gagandeep Singh Randhawa consumed poison, his mother on Monday moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking directions to the State to ensure that the postmortem was conducted by a medical board outside Punjab in a fair, impartial and transparent manner.In her petition, Bhag Kaur submitted that it should preferably be conducted in Chandigarh at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, GMCH- 32, GMCH-16, or at Rohtak PGI. It could also be conducted at Bathinda AIIMS. Directions were also sought for preservation of all evidence, including videography of the postmortem examination.The plea, filed through counsel Saurav Bhatia and Navdeep Khokhar, alleged on the petitioner’s behalf that Punjab Transport Minister Laljit Singh Bhullar, along with his father Sukhdev Singh Bhullar and other associates, summoned the petitioner’s son to his residence on March 13 to “rebuke threaten and admonish” him as he was “unable to give illegal and undue favours to the minister, his father and associates of the Minister in awarding illegal, unjust tenders/contracts to them against the law”.It was further alleged that Randhawa was subjected to physical assault. “He was mercilessly physically beaten up at the residence of the Minister, humiliated, tortured and threatened that his family, including minor children, will be eliminated by gangsters.”The petition added that the Minister openly declared that he had ordered gangsters to complete the elimination task. “Under this pressure, duress and criminal intimidation, wrongful confinement, misuse of the public power and threat to eliminate his family, the petitioner’s son was forced to make a statement, falsely implicating him for misconduct… Thereafter, a fabricated video was made of Gagandeep Singh Randhawa to falsely implicate him in matters relating to tender allotment,” it was alleged.The petitioner added her son was continuously threatened with fatal consequences and was told that “hired criminals were tracking his movements and those of his family with a view to causing him bodily harm or worse”.It was added that Randhawa forwarded various representations to the department Manager, Deputy Commissioner and President. He eventually could not withstand the torture and committed suicide “which was the direct result of the duress and harassment,” it was further alleged.