Lawyer, woman friend's bodies found buried in Ludhiana village field
Jalandhar, May 8 -- The bodies of a local lawyer and his woman partner, who were kidnapped and murdered, were found buried in an agricultural field in Ludhiana's Chahar village, 18 days after they went missing, the Kapurthala police said on Wednesday.
The deceased, Sanjeev Kumar, 44, and his friend Anju Paul, 42, were missing since April 19. Police had already arrested a history-sheeter Harvinder Singh, alias Pinder, 35, the woman's ex-husband, for committing the crime. The police, in a joint operation with the Gujarat Police, had arrested Harvinder from a dhaba at Lakadia village, 52 km from Bhuj, on April 29.
Harvinder is serving life imprisonment for the murder of then Moga DSP Balraj Singh Gill and his woman friend Monika Kapila in a farmhouse of an industrialist on Ludhiana's Humbra Road in 2012 during a robbery attempt. He was released on parole two months ago and was to report back to prison on April 23.
SSP Gaurav Toora said after being grilled for several days, Harvinder finally confessed to strangulating both the accused to death and burying them in the open fields in Chahar village. "On his identification, the police dug out both the bodies and sent them for postmortem," he said.
SSP said during probe, it came to light that Harvinder married Anju in 2019 and both had a cordial relationship. Anju helped in getting Pinder paroles and other legal assistants. "Their relationship turned sour after Anju developed a relationship with lawyer Sanjeev. Infuriated over this, the accused planned to eliminate both the victims and kidnapped them at gunpoint before killing them," he said.
SP Phagwara Rupinder Kaur Bhatti said as many as six persons have been arrested so far. Three of his accomplices, including Pinder's brother Kuldeep Singh, Balraj Kaur and Rupinder Singh, alias Pinda, were arrested on April 27 for providing financial and other logistics.
"On April 19, Pinder, along with his two accomplices, barged into Anju's apartment and kidnapped them at gunpoint," she said....
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