LUDHIANA: Five years after a 21-year-old woman was killed for honour, the Ludhiana police have arrested her father and uncle, who were declared proclaimed offenders by a local court in the murder case.
Victim Amandeep Kaur of Bathinda was then a college student.
The arrested are her father Hardeep Singh, 52, and his brother Gurmeet Singh, 50, of Muhala village, Bathinda. The other accused who are at large are her mother Balwinder Kaur, uncle Baljit Singh, aunt Harmeet Kaur and relative Baljeet Gill.
Basant Avenue police post in-charge ASI Ranjeet Singh said, “The accused were arrested from Bathinda on a tip-off. Amandeep had an affair with Jaskaran Singh, a Jawaddi Kalan resident, and the two tied the knot on April 2, 2016, against the wishes of her family. On May 31, 2016, the accused kidnapped Amandeep from her in-laws’ house and took her to Bathinda.”
Dugri police station SHO inspector Surinder Chopra said, “On Jaskaran’s complaint, the police had then lodged an FIR under sections 364 (kidnapping) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC against her father and his accomplices. After taking Amandeep back home, all the accused killed her and threw her body in a canal there. The body floated towards fields. Thereafter, the family got an FIR lodged against Jaskaran under Section 304-B (dowry death) claiming that Amandeep committed suicide due to dowry harassment.”
“However, after that, Jaskaran filed a complaint with the Punjab DGP and an inquiry was marked to an AIG-level officer. After the investigation, dowry death FIR was canceled and Section 302 (murder) was added to the kidnapping FIR. Since then the accused were on the run. On November 17, 2018, court had declared them proclaimed offenders,” he added.
The inspector said the police would try to obtain police remand of the accused for further questioning.
