Six years after woman’s murder, 7 get life term

SIRSA: A court here on Friday sentenced seven members of a family from Darbi village in Sirsa to life imprisonment for killing a woman relative for having a love marriage.
Amandeep Kaur was strangled to death by her family members and relatives in 2014. The convicts include her brother Karn Singh, uncles Mukhtiar and Jagtar, cousin Vikas, aunt Balveer Kaur, and distant relative Buta Singh and his wife Rani.Sirsa additional sessions judge Chander Hans also imposed a fine on the convicts while acquitting eight others in the case.
While Karn, Vikas, Mukhtiar and Jagtar are from Darbi, Balveer is resident of Ferozepur in Punjab and Buta and Rani are from Jhunir in Mansa district of Punjab.
Earlier, a minor was held guilty in the case and two accused were acquitted. Amandeep’s father Ram Singh, who was declared a proclaimed offender, has not been arrested. Her mother Baljinder Kaur, Bimla Devi, Hardeep alias Channa and Prince Kaur have already undergone their sentence for assault in the same case.
Ding police station had registered a case of murder on a complaint by Manmeet Singh, a resident of Darbi who married Amandeep in August 2014.
Manmeet and Amandeep eloped on August 10, 2014, and got married. After that they went to live with a relative in Tibbi in Punjab. On August 15, 2014, the newlymarried couple met the Sirsa superintendent of police to seek police protection.
On getting police protection, Manmeet and Amandeep started living in his house in Darbi. On September 30, 2014, Manmeet and Amandeep were going to his aunt’s house in Bhavdeen village on his motorcycle. Amandeep’s family surrounded them on the way.
Manmeet said Amandeep’s wife’s father Ram, brother Karna, Chanan and other relatives attacked them with sharp-edged weapons. They took Amandeep away, he had said in his complaint.
On October 2, 2014, the villagers saw the body of a young woman covered in blood in Bharokha village in Sirsa. The villagers informed the police about it.
The woman was identified as Amandeep. After that police had registered a case of murder on the complaint of Manmeet Singh.