No breakthrough in GNDU lecturer missing case

PK Jaiswar

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, April 22

Six months after the mysterious disappearance of Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU) lecturer Sukhpreet Kaur Brar, the investigation has reached a dead end. The investigation is still going on but the police are groping in the dark with no clue.

The police have asked the police stations, under whose jurisdiction the Amritsar-Chandigarh route falls, to inform if they found any woman’s body during that period. The “kidnapper” Jazzinder Singh Virk, who ended his life later, apparently took this route after allegedly kidnapping her.

“We have asked them to provide the information of murder cases, especially of women, or any action they have taken under Section 174 of the CrPC regarding the recovery of a woman’s body,” said a cop.

However, the Cantonment 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 helpful in tracing the missing lecturer.

Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (ADCP) Lakhbir Singh said there had been no progress in the case so far. All the efforts put in by the local police met a dead end. When asked whether the police have closed the file, he denied and hoped that the police would get some clue in the near future.

Assistant Prof Sukhpreet Kaur Brar had gone missing on September 11 last year. She had left a note 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 for her release.

Later, Virk committed suicide at a hotel in Maharashtra. The police found his car abandoned a few kilometres away from the hotel. The police also found the purse and cards of Brar. The forensic examination of the car had confirmed the presence of blood stains, which turned out to be of Virk, the ADCP added.