Main suspect in former cop’s murder still at large

Tribune News Service

Ambala, August 16

Even as the police had been able to arrest three co- accused in a murder case of a retired sub-inspector of Haryana Police, Satwinder Singh, alias, Kaka (62), the main suspect was still on the run. Kaka was shot dead in a broad daylight in Ambala Cantonment on July 31.

Jagpreet, alias, Preet, whose father Gurpal Singh was killed in 2013, was the main suspect in the case. His paternal uncle Darshan Singh, who was named as one of the four suspects and two others, including, Rishabh, alias Bobby, a resident of Chandigarh, and Karan Vasudev of Ambala had already been arrested for providing mobile phones, SIM cards and shelter to Jagpreet.

“We are on his lookout and have dispatched separate teams to his suspected hideouts to catch hold of him,” said Ambala Cantonment DSP Ram Kumar, who has been leading a SIT to crack the case. He maintained that the main suspect and couple of his accomplices were still on the run.

Besides Jagpreet, his paternal uncle Darshan Singh, Darshan’s son Chhinda and brother-in-law Bharti had been booked under Sections 302, 120-B, 452 and 34 of the IPC and Section 25 of the Arms Act.

The victim’s son Jagdeep Singh had alleged that Jagpreet along with his uncle Darshan Singh, cousin Chhinda, Darshan’s brother-in-law Bharti and Bharti’s son had killed his father in a planned manner.

He had admitted that they had an old property dispute with Jagpreet’s family following which they had been engaged in clashes involving shootouts in the past as well.

The retired cop was shot dead around 9 am as he was having tea at his friend’s shop in Gandhi market after doing a morning workout.

The assailants, who were reported to be three in number, had fired four to five shots in the head and arms of the victim from point-blank range with .315-bore country made pistols before fleeing in an old white-coloured Maruti 800 car.

Kaka’s elder brother Joginder Singh, alias, Hira, was killed in 1999 and his son Randeep has been in a jail for killing Gurpal Singh, father of Jagpreet in 2013.