Murder case of Mukerian-based AEO cracked, 1 held

Our Correspondent

Hoshiarpur, October 11

With the arrest of the accused, the police on Monday claimed to have solved the case of the brutal murder of a 34-year-old man, posted as Agricultural Extension Officer (AEO) in the Agriculture Department in Mukerian. The crime was committed on late Saturday night. The victim’s blood-soaked body was found from a deserted place late at night.

Giving information related to the arrest, DSP Gurpreet Singh said a police party, led by SHO Karnail Singh, after getting information on the phone from the control room, Chandigarh, reached Kalamanjh Kothi in Ward No.1 and found a blood-soaked body lying there. There were marks of wounds and injuries of sharp-edged weapons on the body.

The deceased was identified as Amandeep Dadwal (34), son of Sukhdarshan Singh, a resident of Shastri Colony (Mukerian). After the identification of the body, a case was registered on the basis of the statement of the victim’s father against Ashutosh, a resident of Kalamanjh, Colonel di Kothi.

The DSP said during the investigation, it came out that the accused earlier worked at a medicine shop where Amandeep used to come in the evening. He had caught him stealing and got him expelled from the job. Later, he joined as a worker somewhere else, but Amandeep got him expelled from there too. Owing to his being expelled from two jobs, Ashutosh called him on Saturday on the pretext of a party and killed him with a sharp-edged weapon. The police have recovered the ‘daatar’ (a sharp-edged weapon) used in the crime and the blood-drenched clothes of the accused which he was wearing at the time of the incident.

The reason behind crime

During the investigation, it came out that the accused earlier worked at a medicine shop where Amandeep used to come in the evening. He had caught him stealing and got him expelled from the job. Later, he joined as a worker somewhere else, but Amandeep got him expelled from there too. Owing to his being expelled from two jobs, Ashutosh called him on Saturday on the pretext of a party and killed him with a sharp-edged weapon.