Mystery shrouds death of woman

Amritsar, May 31

Mystery shrouds the death of a woman, who was allegedly found murdered at Arjanmanga village falling under the Mehta police station here on Saturday.

However, her brother had accused her husband for the murder while alleging that he had illicit relations with a woman and the victim, identified as Daljit Kaur (52), used to object to this. Following the statement of the victim’s brother Gurmukh Singh, the police have registered a murder and criminal conspiracy case against his husband.

Besides her husband Palwinder Singh, the police have booked Jatinder Singh, his wife Sandeep Kaur, Sarabjit Kaur, Paramjit Kaur, all residents of Arjanmanga village.

Gurmukh said around 10 days ago, his sister had a quarrel with Palwinder and she asked him to stop meeting Paramjit. He alleged the accused beat her and throw her out of the house. He said relatives of both sides gathered and a compromise was made and Daljit was sent back to her husband’s house. He alleged that on Saturday, the accused hatched a conspiracy and killed his sister. He said the victim had strangulation marks on her neck and chin.

Satpal Singh, SHO, Mehta police station, said the body was taken into custody and sent for postmortem. The accused were yet to be arrested. — TNS