Chandigarh, Feb. 10 -- A Zirakpur man, who had murdered his estranged girlfriend and his sister with a pair of scissors at their rented accommodation in the heart of Chandigarh in August 2019, will spend the rest of his life in jail, a local court has ruled.

The convict, Kuldeep Singh, now aged 39, had forced his entry into the victims' one-room accommodation on the second floor of a house in Sector 22 on August 15, 2019, early in the morning.

The bodies of the sisters, Manpreet Kaur, 26, and Rajwant Kaur, 24, were found with the throats slit the same day. The sisters belonged to Abohar town of Fazilka district in Punjab and worked in a factory at Zirakpur on the outskirts of Chandigarh.

Son of a retired Chandigarh Police inspector, wh...