After seven months, 89-year-old retired army personnel Purshottam Singh Gandhok, was granted bail on Friday in the double murder of his bedridden wife and mentally challenged daughter. Police said the court granted him bail on medical grounds and he will be released soon from jail. Gandhok told the court that he had released his wife and daughter from pain.

Gandhok had fought in the 1971 India-Pakistan war and sustained a bullet injury in his leg. He left the army in 1976. He had been taking care of his wife Jasbir Kaur, 76, who was bedridden for the past 20 years and his younger daughter, Kamaljeet Kaur, 51, who was mentally challenged. Gandhok told the police that his body was not supporting him now and after his death nobody would take care of his wife and daughter. Due to this, he said he killed them on February 6 in their home in a rented flat at Sher-e-Punjab Colony in Andheri East.