25-yr-old murdered, honour killing suspected

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, January 31

In a suspected case of honour killing, a youth, identified as Gurpeet Singh (25), was on Saturday kidnapped and later killed by family members of the woman with whom he got married around four months ago.

The police have booked the woman’s father Jagir Singh, his two sons Gurpreet Singh and Malkeet Singh, and paternal uncle Kashmir Singh, all residents of Mehdipura village along with five unknown persons on charges of kidnapping (Section 364, IPC), murder (Section 302, IPC) and criminal conspiracy (Section 120-B, IPC) and other relevant sections of the IPC. No arrest has been made so far.

Raju Singh, brother of the victim, told the police that Gurpreet, who worked as a driver, married Harpreet Kaur of Mehdipura village against the wishes of her family in September last year. He said he was getting death threats from the bride’s family. Owing to these threats, they used to pick and drop him to his work.

Raju said on Saturday, he along with his father was going to drop the victim to his work when two SUVs overtook and stopped their vehicle. They kidnapped Gurpreet near Arora petrol station. He said they looked for him here and there but failed to locate him.

Raju said later Sahib Singh of Pandher Kalan village informed that Gurpreet’s body was lying near a brick-klin at Ghukewali village. He said when they went there, they found signs of injections on his left arm and a syringe was also found there. He said the accused killed him by injecting some poisonous substance into his body.

Mantej Singh, Investigating Officer of the case, said investigation was under progress and the body was sent for a postmortem.