Woman, 3 others held guilty of cop's murder

CHANDIGARH: The district court held four persons, including a woman who murdered her husband to get married to her paramour, guilty. The quantum of punishment will be announced on Friday.
The four convicts have been identified as Sukhdeep Kaur, Sahib Singh, a resident of Pandtan Kheri, Rajpura, Patiala, Deepak, a resident of Patiala and Manpreet of Rajpura, district Patiala.
Sukhdeep Kaur had an extra marital affair with an NRI. To marry him, she hired three persons to murder her husband. The deceased has been identified as Jasvir Singh, who was posted at Punjab Police Commando Complex.
The convicts were booked on March 5, 2016. Sukhdeep Kaur, wife of Jasvir Singh, resident of Raipur Khurd, Chandigarh submitted a written statement about her husband going missing. She said her husband, Jasvir Singh, 40, is serving with Punjab Police and is posted at Punjab Police Commando Complex, Phase II, Mohali.
On March 3, 2016, he went to work at 5AM. But neither did he reach the office nor did he come home. An FIR was registered but during investigation, a special investigation team (SIT) comprising inspector Baldev Kumar and inspector Ranjit Singh of the Crime Branch was constituted.
SIT collected technical and circumstantial evidence which put Sukhdeep Kaur's statement under the scanner. On being interrogated, she confessed to have murdered her husband Jasvir Singh with the help of Sahib Singh and others. During interrogation, accused Sahib Singh said he murdered Jasvir Singh with the help of Sukhdeep. He said they mixed sleeping pills in Jasvir's food and when he fell unconscious, they took off his clothes and tied his hands. After that, they took him in a car to Mandouli village near Rajpura, district Patiala, where they threw him in the Bhakhra Canal.
Gurjinder alias Neeta threw his civil clothes in the bushes near the canal while Sahib Singh threw his uniform in the forest near Raipur Khurd. Sukhdeep threw his mobile phone and purse containing documents in the Ghaggar river. Sukhdeep Kaur was in touch with one Harjit Singh on social media for the last four years.