Ludhiana: The Jagraon Government Railway Police (GRP) would have cremated the body of realtor Rajiv Sunda, 60, on Friday evening had its inspector Jeevan Singh not approached Ludhiana cops after reading about Sunda family in a newspaper.
For two days, nobody approached the GRP to know about any abandoned, unidentified body. After the GRP inspector read the news report, he decided to pursue the case of body recovered from railway tracks on the evening of November 24.
The inspector said he had alerted the Ludhiana rural police about it and vernacular newspapers had also published a report about the suicide, but the Ludhiana city police remained unaware about it.
On the morning of November 24, Rajiv had murdered with an axe and a knife his wife Sunita, 56, son Ashish, 35, daughter-in-law Garima, 30, and grandson Saket, 13, at their house in Mayur Vihar, Hambran Road. Thereafter, he had committed suicide at railway tracks in Jagraon.
The inspector said, “I visited the railway tracks where the body was found. After keeping it in the mortuary, we alerted the Ludhiana rural police about it. I also gave information about it in two vernacular newspapers so that the relatives of the deceased could approach us. But, nobody came. On the morning of November 26, I read the news of Sunda family in a newspaper. I thought on-the-run Rajiv could be the same man whose body was found on the railway tracks. I immediately approached the Ludhiana city police, who brought the deceased’s kin for verification. After the kin identified the body, it was handed over to them. Else, we would have cremated it after completion of 72 hours on Friday.”