Amit Singh, the Jabalpur district police superintendent confirmed that Harish Patel had served the Indian Army for 24 years before his retirement and was presently working as a security guard at the JMC, where the incident happened.
The clash allegedly took place between the supporters of former chief minister Virbhadra Singh and outgoing state unit president Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu
Sushil Sharma, a Congress youth leader and former MLA had killed her wife Naina Sahni, a fellow Congress worker had killed his wife and later had cut the body into pieces and burnt it inside a 'tandoor'.