‘Kidnapped’ GNDU staffer’s kin accuse cops of inaction

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, September 19

Failing to get any clue about the whereabouts of kidnapped GNDU assistant professor Sukhpreet Kaur and her alleged kidnapper Jazzinder Singh Virk, senior police officials are now claiming that she might have willfully accompanied the accused.

However, the family members of Sukhpreet alleged that the police were “trying to hide their incompetence with such misleading claims”.

Jagmohan Singh, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Investigation), said: “She had a relationship with the accused and went with him on her own. Still we are trying to locate them. Teams have been sent to various states.” The DCP claimed that Virk might be aware of police efforts through media reports.

Reacting to the police statement, Sukhpreet’s brother Sukhdeep Singh Brar alleged that the police had failed to trace the accused even after getting several clues to his locations.

He said: “The accused is a history-sheeter and Sukhpreet had written about it in her note that she left behind in her room. She went to meet him to get her money back. The police claims are false. The accused has kidnapped her and the police are under obligation to recover her.” “We appeal to the government to trace my sister,” he added.