Veteran journalist’s murder solved, claim police; youth arrested

Nitin Jain

Tribune News Service

Mohali, October 26

An unemployed youth of Bulandshahr in UP mercilessly stabbed veteran journalist KJ Singh and strangulated his nonagenarian mother Gurcharan Kaur after a tiff with Singh over sitting suspiciously in a park close to Singh’s house on the night of the crime, police claimed on Thursday.

Mohali SSP Kuldeep Singh Chahal told a press conference here that the kitchen knife used in the crime, Singh’s stolen Ford Ikon car, a mobile phone, a wrist watch and a DVR were recovered from the alleged killer, Gaurav Kumar, who is in his late 20s.

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Police claim that the killer executed the brutal double murder alone.

Police apprehended the "killer" on Thursday afternoon on Airport Road near Sohana gurdwara here when he was driving Singh’s car with a fake number plate.

Singh had questioned the youth over his sitting suspiciously in the park and slapped him, following which the youth killed the journalist and his mother, who was an eyewitness to Singh's murder, the police claimed.

The killer was currently staying at Kajheri in Chandigarh.

The veteran journalist and his 92-year-old mother were found murdered at their residence on September 23.

According to the post-mortem report, K J Singh had received multiple stab injuries, between 14 and 17, inflicted through a sharp-edged weapons while his mother was strangulated to death.