Murder accused contests election for Ludhiana village sarpanch from jail

MACHHIWARA

: An accused in the infamous '

Jamalpur fake encounter

case', Gurjeet Singh Sam of Khokhran, is contesting

sarpanch

elections from jail and his family members are carrying out his campaign outside.


Confirming the development, Gurmeet Singh, younger brother of Gurjeet Singh said that his sister-in-law was the outgoing sarpanch of panchayat of two villages, Takhran and Khokhran after five years. He added that on the basis of development work done by his brother and sister-in-law, villagers had asked them that Gurjeet Singh should contest the election for sarpanch.

Gurmeet Singh said that since his elder brother was in jail in some case, he had filed the nomination papers on behalf of Gurjeet.

Rajwinder Kaur, outgoing sarpanch and wife of Gurjeet Singh, said that he had undertaken development works in the village and he was contesting election so that he would get a chance to complete the unfinished works.

On 27 September 2014, Gurjeet Singh along with three policemen (all posted with Machhiwara police station), had allegedly gunned down Jatinder Singh (25) alias Goldy and his brother Harinder Singh (23) alias Lally at

Ahluwalia Colony

in Jamalpur at around 9am.

The then SHO of Machhiwara police station, Manjinder Singh was named an accused by police in the case for destruction of evidence and making false entries in the Daily Dairy Report.