Month after Lovepreet’s death, wife Beant Kaur booked for fraud

Tribune News Service

Sangrur, July 28

More than a month after a Kothe Gobindpura resident Lovepreet Singh, alias Ladi, was found dead under mysterious circumstances, the Dhanaula police have registered a fraud case against his wife Beant Kaur, who is in Canada on a study visa. The family members of the deceased have been protesting and demanding the registration of abetment to suicide case against Kaur.

Kaur and her family have been repeatedly denying all allegations. Balwinder Singh, father of the deceased, said in the FIR that his son was married with Beant Kaur on August 2, 2019.

He alleged he spent Rs 24 lakh on the marriage and to send the girl to Canada on August 17, 2019.

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“Ladi died by suicide by consuming poison as his wife stopped talking to him. We started a protest on the Sangrur-Dhanaula road and will not lift it till the registration of abetment to suicide case against Beant Kaur and her family. She must be deported to India to face the trial,” said Balwinder Singh. But cops are waiting for the visceral report that they had submitted in the office of chemical examiner, Kharar, on June 30.

The death of Ladi has caused a storm on social media as his wife and her family are facing criticism. “We have registered a fraud case against Beant Kaur.