Man murdered, woman among 4 booked in Amritsar

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, August 8

The Gharinda police have booked four persons, including a woman, for allegedly murdering a man identified as Karandeep Singh (25) of Lahorimal village here on Saturday. The incident occurred on Friday night.

Those booked were identified as Jaspinder Singh, Ravinder Singh, Sukhwinder Singh and his wife Rajwant Kaur, all residents of same village. An old dispute over lodging a theft case was the reason behind the tiff.

Simranjit Kaur, (22) wife of the deceased, told the police on late Friday evening that the accused barged into her house. They were all armed with bricks and stones. She said immediately after entering the house, Jaspinder Singh shouted and asked his accomplices to teach our family a lesson for lodging a false FIR of theft against them.

She said the accused hit Karandeep with bricks and stones due to which he suffered critical head injury. He fell unconscious while the accused fled from the spot. She said injured Karandeep was rushed to a private hospital, but he succumbed on the way.

Lovepreet Singh, SHO Gharinda police station, said the accused were absconding after the incident. Raids were on to arrest them, he said. A case under Sections 302, 452 and 34 of the IPC was registered against them.

He said an FIR of theft was registered against the accused and they suspected that it was the victim who got the case registered.

30-year-old beaten to death in chabal, 5 booked; video goes viral

Tarn Taran: A former assistant mechanic of a shopkeeper in the border township of Chabal was beaten to death on early Sunday morning on the suspicion of theft. The video of the incident has also gone viral. The deceased had been identified as Sharanjit Singh (30), a resident of Baghiari village. The accused include Bikramjit Singh, Harjit Singh, his son Bhupinder Singh, Inderjit Singh Lali and his brother Jujjbir Singh, all residents of Amritsar. The accused were related to each other and a case under Sections 302, 506, 148 and 149 of the IPC was registered against them by the Chabal police. Local DSP Sucha Singh Bal said the deceased was an assistant mechanic with accused Bikramjit Singh, but due to some reason, he left him and started working with some nearby shopkeeper. Bikramjit Singh was blaming the deceased for stealing valuable articles from his shop. In a fit of rage, they caught hold of the deceased on Sunday and started thrashing him black and blue. They beat him up so severely that he became unconscious. The accused took him to a private hospital in the town, but he died on the way to the hospital. The accused Bhupinder Singh has been arrested and others were still at large, the DSP said. The post-mortem was done at the local Civil Hospital. OC

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