Mysterious missing of GNDU lecturer, police still clueless

PK Jaiswar

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, December 12

Nearly 16 months after the mysterious disappearance of a lecturer at Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU), Sukhpreet Kaur Brar, the police has failed to find her whereabouts or locate her body.

The police had earlier, initiated the process of declaring her dead as the case had reached a dead end after her kidnapper and alleged boyfriend committed suicide in Maharashtra.

The forensic examination of the car driven by her kidnapper, Jazzinder Singh alias Garry Virk, to Maharashtra before ending his life also failed to provide any clue about her whereabouts.

Assistant professor Sukhpreet Kaur Brar had gone missing on September 11 last year. She had left a note in her room on the university campus, stating that she was going to meet Jazziinder Singh, alias Garry Virk, who owed her money. She had also expressed apprehensions that she would be harmed.

The incident came to light four days later when her father approached the GNDU authorities after he received a ransom call, allegedly from Virk, for her release. Later, Virk committed suicide at a hotel in Maharashtra. The police found his car abandoned near the hotel.

The police suspected that the accused had killed her. He probably dumped her body either in Beas river or in the Pinjore area. The police had searched both the areas, but found nothing.

The police had asked the police stations, under whose jurisdiction the Amritsar-Chandigarh route comes, to inform if they had found any woman’s body during that period. Virk, the “kidnapper”, had apparently taken this route after allegedly kidnapping her.

However, the local police did not receive any information in this regard while the forensic reports of the car, used in the crime, also did not yield any significant result that would help in tracing the lecturer. Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (ADCP) Lakhbir Singh said they were still the awaiting the reports before declaring her dead.