“I fear for my life,” the wife of a PWC employee said, blaming a previous Punjabi minister and refusing to perform the final rites and postmortem.

Gagandeep Singh Randhawa, a district manager for the Punjab Warehousing Corporation (PWC), will not have his postmortem or final ceremonies performed “until justice is delivered,” according to his wife Upinder Kaur.

Talking to reporters on Sunday, Kaur said, “Postmortem and last rites will be conducted only after that… I want justice and nothing else,” reported news agency ANI.

At around seven in the morning on Saturday, Randhawa is said to have died after ingesting a toxic chemical. His suicide has caused a political uproar in Punjab, where Laljit Singh Bhullar, the former minister of transportation, is facing grave accusations. He allegedly claims in a video that appeared on social media that same day that he took the drastic measure because he was afraid of Bhullar.

Bhullar was accused by the PWC official’s widow of persistently intimidating and pressuring her husband.

“Transport minister Laljit Singh Bhullar tortured my husband a lot. My husband was made so helpless that he took his own life… He was told that his family, his children, would be finished off, and gangsters would be put after him,” ANI quoted her as saying.

Describing the days leading up to his death, she added, “He was tortured a lot on March 13 at his office. On Saturday morning, yesterday, he took his own life. I have 3 young children. I have a mother-in-law. All of us demand justice. Make arrests.”

Kaur said her husband had informed her about the alleged harassment and had even approached authorities.

“After he came back on March 13, he had told me everything… He had even made a complaint to his department. They only kept giving him assurances, but nothing happened,” she said.

She further alleged delays in police action, claiming, “FIR was not registered initially under the government’s pressure.”

Linking the issue to an official tender, she said, “This was all done because a tender was not passed. It was being implied that my husband was not passing it deliberately.”

“I fear for my life; security should be provided to my children and me… If anything happens to us, this Govt would be responsible for it,” Kaur added. Bhullar resigned from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) cabinet as a result of the controversy’s rapid escalation. Bhagwant Singh Mann, the chief minister of Punjab, resigned in response to the accusations.

The former minister, his father Sukhdev Singh Bhullar, and another assistant were charged with aiding and abetting suicide shortly after the resignation.An FIR has been registered at the Ranjit Avenue police station under Sections 109, 351(3), and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, according to Gurpreet Singh Bhullar, Commissioner of Police, Amritsar.