Accused in 5-day police remand

Tribune News Service

Mohali, October 27

A local court today sent Gaurav Kumar, a 27-year-old unemployed youth arrested for the murder of veteran journalist KJ Singh (65) and his bed-ridden mother Gurcharan Kaur (92), to five-day police remand.

The police had sought his seven-day remand on the grounds of establishing the motive of the crime and to ascertain whether the accused had any accomplice.

A senior police official said, “During the preliminary investigation, the accused, who hails from Bulandshahr in UP and was staying at Kajheri village in Chandigarh, stated that he was running out of money and was planning a loot,” the official said.

Sources said the police would make the painter, who replaced the victim’s stolen Ford Ikon’s registration number plate, as a witness in the case. The accused had reportedly got the number plate replaced from the Sector 48 motor market in Chandigarh.

Sources said the accused had sold the LED TV for Rs 1,500 and the police were close to recovering it.

On Thursday, the police had claimed to have cracked the double murder case with the arrest of Gaurav and recovered items he decamped with from the victims’ house besides the kitchen knife used in the crime. The police had stated that KJ Singh had slapped Gaurav during an altercation, which provoked the accused to take revenge.