No headway in double murder case

The police have been quite close in cracking the case. We have obtained some crucial leads and we would solve it soon.

- Rabcharan Singh Brar, SSP, Jagraon.

Cong leader, wife were brutally killed in May

Jaswant Shetra

Jagraon, November 24

The mystery surrounding the brutal killing of senior Congress leader Suresh Kumar Goel and his wife Shimla Devi continues to haunt the local police. The police have failed to crack this high-profile double murder case even after more than six months have passed since the tragic killing of the elderly couple.

Goel (75) and his wife Shimla Devi (70) were brutally stabbed to death by an unidentified assailant late on May 14 night while they were sleeping in their house located on Railway Road, Jagraon.

Shaguna Gupta, a 19-year-old granddaughter of the couple, who had come to meet them from Panchkula a day earlier, was also attacked by the assailant.

Shaguna also received critical injuries during the attack. She survived the attack as she locked herself in a room. The incident came to light when Shaguna raised an alarm after locking herself in the room and a large number of local residents started assembling there. However, the alleged attacker had managed to flee from the scene till then.

Following the gruesome killing of the couple, the police had formed a special investigation team (SIT) comprising Surinder Kumar, DSP, Jagraon, and Naveen Kumar, DSP (D), to solve the case. After a few days of the incident, the police had even released a sketch of the accused on the basis of the information obtained from couple’s granddaughter Shaguna, who had seen the attacker.

Shaguna had narrated the incident to the police. She had told the police that she woke up in the middle of the night after hearing the screams of her grandmother. The assailant also stabbed her when she tried to stop him.

During the course of investigation, the police had also rounded up a few persons for questioning but they were let off after the same. The police have failed to track the accused.

Suresh Kumar Goel was a former president of the Jagraon Municipal Council. Besides, he was also a three-time Congress councillor while his wife was a retired government school teacher.

SSP, Jagraon, Rabcharan Singh Brar said the police had been quite close in cracking the case.

"We have obtained some crucial leads in the case and we would solve the same soon”, said Brar.