Perth man denies ordering hit on father-in-law in India

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A Perth man has pleaded not guilty allegedly organising for three men to kill his father-in-law in India.

Maddington man Shiv Sheetal, 42, has been charged with attempted murder. He appeared in the Supreme Court of Western Australia on Wednesday.

Shiv Sheetal was arrested and charged with the attempted murder of his father-in-law.

Sheetal was arrested by WA Police after detectives were contacted by Indian authorities who were investigating an attack on his father-in-law in Kahlon Village, Punjab India.

Police allege the 65-year-old man had previously received death threats before he was attacked with a machete and then shot in the back by a group of men in February last year.

He survived with a fractured skull and serious brain injury after the gun misfired, and later relocated to Western Australia.

Police allege Sheetal was “actively seeking a person to commit the murder of his father-in-law”.

Sheetal denied the charge in court on Wednesday through an Indian interpreter.

The case will go to trial, and the state prosecutor has been ordered to begin compiling their brief of evidence.

Sheetal will come before court again in January next year.