Satisfied with court upholding sentence of accused, say kin

Nikhil Bhardwaj

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, October 18

Reacting on the decision of the Punjab and Haryana High Court on upholding the sentence of the three accused in a murder case of Moga DSP Balraj Singh Gill, the deceased’s sister, Gursharan Kaur, said, “I welcome the High Court’s decision.”

“Decision of the High Court is indeed satisfying. We expected this from the court. The accused had filed an appeal for the dilution of the sentence, but the court did justice by upholding their conviction,” Gursharan told The Tribune.

Notably, more than seven years after the then Moga DSP, Balraj Singh Gill, and woman identified as Monica Kapila, were found brutally murdered at a farmhouse in Ludhiana, the Punjab and Haryana High Court yesterday upheld the conviction of the three accused.

The DSP was found with his throat slit and face smashed while Monica’s body was so badly disfigured. The Ludhiana police cracked the case two months later in April, 2012, with the arrest of the six accused, who claimed that they murdered DSP and his woman friend to rob them.

The convicts, Harwinder Singh, Pritpal Singh and Umesh Karda, had moved the High Court after they were convicted by the Ludhiana Additional Sessions Judge in September, 2015. The judge had directed that the sentences would run consecutively and not concurrently.