PATIALA: Patiala police have booked a man under sections of IPC including murder for allegedly killing a 22-year-old neighbour. The police said that the accused was having suspicion about his sister having a relationship with a neighbour.
The police said that the accused murdered the deceased identified as Ajay Kumar, 23 of Nabha, by using a sharp-edged weapon – an awl. The police claimed that Ajay was stabbed several times by the accused identified as Gurtej Singh. Both Ajay and Gurtej lives in the same colony.
The case has been registered with the Sadar Nabha police station in the district on a complaint of Ajay’s father Omkar who claimed that the accused Gurtej Singh had killed his son brutally on Friday evening.
The police revealed that earlier too, the accused Gurtej had landed in a fray with Ajay over the same issue and objected over his alleged relationship with his sister.
“The accused is still at large however we are carrying out the raids to nab him. The accused allegedly killed him with an awl. Ajay was stabbed several times at different body parts by the accused and the injury marks on Ajay’s dead body are clear that he was attacked with an awl. The complainant claimed that Ajay had gone out of his house on a bike to purchase some items for decoration on Friday evening but the accused on the way pounced on him and attacked him. Ajay was rushed to government hospital in Nabha from where the doctors referred him for higher institute following severe injuries. The family rushed Ajay to government Rajindra hospital in Patiala but he was declared dead by the doctors. We are also probing if the accused is having criminal past”, said station house officer Sadar Nabha police station.
The family of the deceased claimed that the attack seems to have been done by two or more accused but the police have registered a case only against Gurtej Singh. The family members claimed that Ajay was cremated but the accused were still at large.