Killer was at KJ’s house for hour & 20 minutes

Tribune News Service

Mohali, October 26 

Garuav entered KJ Singh’s house at 10.40 pm on a rainy night of September 22 to take revenge and remained there for around an hour and 20 minutes before fleeing along with KJ Singh’s car and other belongings around midnight. 

These details of the crime sequence were given by Mohali SP (Detective) Harbir Singh Atwal, who said after the tiff with KJ Singh, Gaurav went to his house at Kajheri village and returned to Mohali at night.

“He entered KJ Singh’s house at 10.40 pm after scaling the main outer iron gate. He managed to ring the door bell button, which is installed outside the gate, from inside the gate and then hid near the main entrance door, said the SP.

KJ Singh opened the entrance door, having an iron grid, to see who had rung the bell when Gaurav pounced on him and stabbed him. 

After sustaining a stab injury, KJ Singh ran inside his bedroom where Gaurav stabbed him repeatedly and slit his throat to kill him. Then he strangled Gurcharan Kaur, who was also awake at the time of the incident. 

After murdering the mother-son duo, the accused washed his hands, clothes and knife. Then he searched all almirahs in the house and took along KJ Singh’s wallet, containing around Rs 22,000, two credit cards, an ATM card, a watch, his MI mobile phone and his mother’s Samsung mobile, an LCD along with its set-up box and a DVR. He left the house around midnight, as seen in a CCTV clipping showing the movement of KJ’s car.

First he went towards the Phase 3-5 light point from where he turned towards the PTL lights. From there, he again took a turn and went to his house at Kajheri.

Gaurav parked the car in a common parking lot near his house and after three days, he replaced its registration number plate with a fake number plate, which he got from the Sector 48 car market at Chandigarh.  Later, Gaurav sold the LCD at a shop in Kajheri. He spent the entire amount of Rs 22,000, lying in the wallet of KJ Singh. However, he did not use his ATM card or credit cards and neither switched on the mobile phones.

A Class XII passout

Gaurav is Class XII passout from UP. His father, Satvir Singh, possesses around 2.5 bigha land. Gaurav came to Chandigarh to go abroad. He contacted an immigration firm at Phase 3B2, which sent him to Georgia. “As the Georgia trip was not a successful venture, Gaurav was now trying to go to some other country and was making rounds of the immigration consultancy for the purpose”. He had come to meet immigration consultancy officials and was sitting in the park when the tiff between him and KJ Singh took place,” said the police.

Live-in relationship

Gaurav was in a live-in relationship with a migrant girl. The girl, whom he used to introduce as his wife to his neighbours, was staying with Gaurav at his rented accommodation at Kajheri.