Man held for killing aunt over land dispute

Tribune News Service

Ambala, June 16

The Ambala police have held a man for allegedly killing his aunt over land dispute and then burying her body in the fields under the jurisdiction of Naggal police station.

The accused was produced before a court on Wednesday which sent him to three-day police custody.

The deceased has been identified as Surender Kaur, alias Jelu Baba (51), a resident of Naggal village, while the accused have been identified as Gurpreet Singh and Kala. The accused had strangulated Surender Kaur and then buried her body in her fields.

As per information, Amarjeet Singh, brother of the deceased woman, had claimed that his sister had gone missing following which a missing complaint was lodged on June 11 and the police started the probe.

During the investigation, the police came to know that Surender Kaur was last seen with her nephew Gurpreet following which the police nabbed Gurpreet Singh. During interrogation, he confessed that he had killed Surender Kaur and buried her body.

The woman was unmarried and living alone. The dispute was related to a nearly 20-acre agricultural land which was under the possession of Surender Kaur. Gupreet and his family allegedly wanted to obtain the land. On the night of June 9, Gurpreet took Surender Kaur with him in a car on some pretext and then on the way, strangulated the woman and buried her body in her fields with the help of his friend. To mislead the police, Gurpreet had left her mobile at a Dhaba in Kurukshetra. On the basis of the disclosure of the accused, the body of Surender Kaur was exhumed from the field and shifted to Civil Hospital for postmortem. From there it was sent to Khanpur Kalan Medical College, Sonepat, today. Dharamveer, SHO, Naggal police station said, “Gurpreet killed Surender Kaur over property dispute.”

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