LUDHIANA: A Punjab police constable and two of his accomplices have been arrested for shooting his live-in partner with his service weapon at a rented house in New Prem Nagar in Ghumar Mandi of Ludhiana.
The girl was rushed to Dayanand Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) in Ludhiana but she died during the treatment.
The deceased girl has been identified as Mandeep Kaur who hailed from the Ferozepur district in Punjab.
The accused cop is identified as Sukhwinder Singh and he hails from Kohara village in Punjab. He was deputed as a gunman in the security of an Additional Deputy Commissioner.
Singh has been arrested for murder by the 8th Division of Punjab Police and has been taken into custody for interrogation. The other two suspects include a man name Noni and the other is an unidentified woman.
The victim's father Rashpal Singh lodged a case against Sukhwinder Singh for the murder of his daughter and Singh was arrested based on that FIR. The victim's father also alleged that the police department was trying to give a clean chit to Sukhwinder Singh and that the investigation was not fair.
The police department's statement and the victim's family's statement are poles apart as according to police sources, the victim has killed herself.
According to the same police statement, the accused arranged a birthday party on Wednesday when his live-in partner Mandeep gifted him an expensive mobile handset and a smartwatch. The accused refused to accept the gift following which they got into an ugly spat and Mandeep took out the accused's service revolver and shot herself. The accused was the one who informed the police and rushed Mandeep to the hospital.
The victim's father Rashpal Singh says that the police are trying to hide facts and that Sukhwinder is the murderer of his daughter. He asked for a detailed investigation into the case and not to give the accused leverage as he is from the department.
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