Theft case: FIR registered after more than 2 months

Our Correspondent
Tarn Taran, December 11

Ninder Singh, a resident of Buraj Nathuke village, who is a patient of cancer and Hepatitis- C (HCV), could get a complaint registered against his daughter for stealing cash and gold ornaments worth lakhs, after over two months efforts.

The version of Harinder Singh SHO of the concerned police station Patti Sadar, was much more excruciating who said he was not aware of registering the case in this regard. He added that both the parties (complainant and the accused) were called to the police station to know the facts of the incident.

According to the facts a case under an FIR No. 244 dated December 9 with Ninder Singh as the complainant of Buraj Nathuke was registered against his daughter Ganagdeep Kaur, her husband Gurlal Singh, her mother-in-law Dheeto and four more have been booked under Sections 380 and 120-B of the IPC (the copy is with The Tribune).

The victim said here on Thursday that his daughter, Ganagdeep Kaur got court-married with Gurlal Singh about four months ago. He said that to save his social honour his family decided to give consent to the marriage and fixed a date to solemnise the marriage.He called his daughter and others at his home from her in-law’s residence on September 21. He along with his wife had gone to Tarn Taran for shopping that day when his daughter stole gold ornaments worth 12 tolas and a cash worth Rs 6.43 lakh by breaking the locks of the rooms which the family had reserved for the function.

Besides Ganagdeep Kaur, her husband Gurlal Singh, mother-in-law Dhito others Avtar Singh, Gurpreet Singh of Kot Khalsa (Amritsar), Sukhraj Kaur and Gursewak Singh of Rahal Chahal village have been nominated as the accused in the case registered by Patti Sadar police on Wednesday. None of the accused have been arrested so far. Ninder Singh alleged that the police was dealing the case with partial attitude and was harassing him under one or the other pretext.