Three nabbed by Ludhiana police for killing woman, dumping body in broad daylight

The police claimed to have solved the murder case of a migrant woman whose body was dumped in a sack on the pretext of rotten mangoes by two motorcyclists on a road divider near Aarti Chowk here on Wednesday.

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Three suspects, identified as Kishan, victim’s father-in-law of Malha, Lucknow (UP), Dulari, mother-in-law, and Ajai Kumar, a resident Gadia village in UP, were nabbed by the police a few hours after the recovery of the body of the woman, who is identified as Reshma (25).

Commissioner of Police, Ludhiana, Swapan Sharma, claimed that police personnel, supervised by Rupinder Singh DCP (City), ADCP Kanwalpreet Singh Chahal and ACP Guriqbal Singh, had solved the murder case within four hours of recovery of the woman’s body, which was stuffed in a sack, and all three suspects had been arrested on Wednesday.

Infidelity suspected reason behind crime

Though the investigating team, led by SI Amarjit Singh, is yet to ascertain the sequence of events leading to the murder, circumstantial evidence suggests that the couple suspected the character of the deceased, whose husband Ramesh Kumar was staying in UP.

Investigation further revealed that the family had started staying at the house of the complainant, Manoj Kumar, of Maharaj Nagar near Circuit House, here, over a fortnight ago and Kishan and his wife Dulari used to quarrel with their ‘daughter-in-law’ over petty issues.

Acknowledging that he had noticed the sack lying outside the door on the fateful morning, Manoj said he thought the family was shifting their belongings to some other place.

“It was after a video regarding the dumping of the sack containing the body near Aarti Chowk was circulated on social media that I suspected the murder and contacted the police to lodge a complaint,” he stated to the police, following which they tightened noose around the suspects and arrested them.

The police are yet to ascertain the role of Ajai, who accompanied Kishan while they took the body on the motorcycle for dumping it. He is insistent on his stand narrated before the people that he was told the bag contained rotten mangoes.

Though the police is yet to verify genuineness of marriage of the deceased with the son of the couple, it is not ruled out that the family could have conspired to get rid of Reshma after shifting to the present residence.

ACP Guriqbal Singh said prompt and coordinated efforts by members of the special investigating team had resulted in expeditious arrest of the suspects, who could have succeeded in fleeing to their native state.

“Though we have collected enough evidence to corroborate the whole story, we can’t divulge details now as it would hamper further investigation,” he said.