LOHIAN KHAS
The Lohian Khas police have arrested three villagers including a woman on the charges of murdering co-villager Santokh Singh.
Shahkot Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Narinder Singh Aujla said that the accused have been identified as Gumail Singh son of Ajit Singh a resident of Mianni village, and his wife Sarabjit Kaur. Kulwant Singh alias Kanta, son of Nirmal Singh a resident of the same village.
Balwinder Kaur wife of the deceased had complained to the police that her husband returned from Italy two months ago. She said her husband went to his fields on November 11 afternoon to sow mustard crops where the accused attacked her husband with sharp-edged weapons to kill.
Balwinder said she and her son reached there and tried to save her husband, but the accused attacked them also and fled away.
She said her son-in-law rushed his father-in-law to Jalandhar Hospital adding that a land issue was the reason behind the crime as her husband passed through the fields of the accused to his fields as there was no pathway.
DSP said that Santokh Singh succumbed to his injuries in Jalandhar hospital on November 13 and a case under section 307 (attempt to murder) 323,324,325(voluntarily causing grievous hurt) and 148 and 19(rioting) of the Indian Penal Code was registered against the accused and section 302(murder was added in the FIR and raids are being conducted to nab the absconding accused.