Couple suicide case: 5-day police remand for sacked woman SI

Amritsar, October 22

Dismissed Sub-Inspector Sandeep Kaur, the prime suspect in the double suicide case, was today produced in a local court, which remanded her in five-day police custody.

The former SI, who had been evading arrest for the past 11 days, was arrested after the intervention of the Chief Minister. She was arrested from a residential complex in Sri Hargobindpur in Gurdaspur yesterday. The rural police had already booked several persons on charges of sheltering her. The city and rural police had booked her on charges of abetting suicide in connection with the deaths of Vikramjit Singh, a jeweller, and his wife Sukhbir Kaur, residents of Navapind village.

Vikramjit was found hanging in a hotel room on Batala road on October 10, and his wife ended her life at the village the same night. Sandeep was booked on the basis of a suicide note found at the room where Vikramjit had ended his life. —TNS