Khatauli murder case: Role of other three sisters under scanner

PANCHKULA: In the Khatauli murder case, Panchkula police suspect the suicide story of Upender Singh Rajput, father of the murdered children, to be a concocted story as the family did not complain to the police and neither got the postmortem conducted.

He had committed suicide in 2008 and the family had secretly cremated the body. However, the police after being sure of Navita alias Lovely's involvement in the murder, one of the sisters as the prime accused in the Khatauli murder case, also suspect involvement of the other three sisters in the crime.

CIA in-charge inspector Aman Kumar said they would also question the other three sisters.

The police have also claimed that they had recovered a blood-stained tracksuit from the house of Lovely and Ram Kumar at Bihta village in Ambala. Lovely is already in police remand.

Kumar said: "It is established that Lovely is directly involved in the murders and she has also confessed to her crime and that she was present when the four people were killed. She also confessed that the mother of the children, Sudha, was also murdered in 2016 and was not missing. We now suspect that the father of the children might have also been murdered as the family concealed the death from the police and hurriedly cremated the body in 2008. No postmortem was conducted. All three sisters were present at the house where the father of the children had committed suicide. We suspect that Rajbala was aware of the death of her son, Upender, and this could also be the motive behind multiple murders apart from property dispute." He said if the police had knowledge of the suicide death, postmortem would have been conducted in the inquest proceedings under Section 174 of CrPC.

"The question is why the family concealed the suicide and cremated the body secretly. Secondly, Lovely is yet to reveal that how and where the body of Sudha, mother of the children, was disposed in 2016. We are still questioning the prime accused to ascertain all leads," said inspector Aman.

It is to be noted, all four members of a family, including three children and their grandmother, were found dead at their house on November 17 at 9am. Nine bullet shells were recovered by the forensic team from the crime spot. All victims were shot at point blank range on their head with a country made pistol.