Blind murder case solved, three alleged killers held

Our Correspondent

Phagwara, June 10

In a major breakthrough, the Nakodar police headed by DSP Navdeep Singh Mahal on Wednesday traced a blind murder case and arrested three persons, allegedly involved in the case, under Sections 307, 324, 323 and 34 of the IPC.

Senior Superintendent of the Police(Rural) Navjot Singh Mahal said the arrested suspects were identified as Bhupinder Singh, alias Bhinda of Sanghe Khalsa village, Deepa and Mandeep Kumar, both residents of Nat village under Nurmahal police station.

Mahal said the police had recovered one sword, one iron rod, one dasta of spade, two motorcycles and one silver karha (male bangle) from the suspects.

The SSP, while giving details, said Mohinder Pal, a resident of Nawanpind Shaukian village under Sadar Nakodar police station went to a doctor to fetch medicine for his wife on July 15 last year. When he was returning back, some unknown persons attacked upon and seriously injured him.

The victim, Mahinder Pal, succumbed to his injuries on July 19 last year.

The SSP said during interrogation suspect Bhupinder Singh revealed that Mohinder Pal was a self-styled godman and used to conduct evil spirit acts. He also conducted some evil spirited act near his house due to which his father fell ill and after two months, he died. The suspect said on three occasions the marriage match of his sister was also broken. The SSP said Bhupinder Singh was of the view that Mohinder Pal was responsible for all these mishaps occurred in his family and thus he kept vengeance with him.