SANGRUR: A
reinvestigation ordered into the death of a local youth has confirmed that he had actually been murdered for a family's honour after he was allegedly seen stalking a local girl. The police had earlier filed the case as
accidental death.
Interacting with the media persons, superintendent of police (detective) HS Hundal said the Bhawanigarh police had found the body of the youth on
Nabha Channo Road in September, last year, later identified as
Yudhvir Singh son of Sher Singh.
While, initially it looked like a case of accidental death, the cops got a tip-off that he had actually been murdered for stalking the daughter of a farmer of Nurpur village.
The SP said following the tip-off, the case was reopened and investigations were handed over to the crime investigating agency of the district police. During the investigations, it emerged that Yudhvir Singh had been stalking the daughter of Jaswant Singh of Nurpur.
On September 30 last year, he went to Jaswant Singh's house in an attempt to interact with his daughter, but was spotted by Jaswant. Enraged on seeing Yudhvir at his house, Jaswant - along with two of his employees, Mandeep Singh and Sukhwinder Singh -thrashed the youth so badly that he died.
In an attempt to hide their crime, the three accused took his body and left it on Nabha Channo Road at a secluded place to make it look like an accident.
Hundal said following the revelations, the cops added Section 302 of the IPC to the FIR that has been registered in regard to the accidental death of Yudhvir Singh and placed the three accused under arrest. He said that this was the sixth blind murder case that has been solved by the district crops in the last five months.
The cops added Section 302 of the IPC to the FIR.