Ex-Army man’s wife found murdered

Jalandhar, September 27

An elderly woman was strangled to death in the Sant Vihar residential area. The incident came to light in the morning, after the woman did not come out of the house to collect milk. When the police reached the spot, they found her lying in a state of unconsciousness.

The deceased has been identified as Balbir Kaur (62), wife of retired Army personnel. After the demise of her husband around seven years ago, she was residing alone in her house near the Verka milk plant. Fingerprint experts and dog squad teams also assisted the police in collecting the evidences. The help of CCTV footage is also taken to trace the accused.

A murder case has been registered against the unknown persons.

As per the police, the milkman knocked at Balbir’s door at around 9:30 in the morning. He failed to get any response despite knocking and calling out the woman several times. Subsequently, he, along with the neighbourers, who gathered outside her house, sneaked through a window and found her lying on the floor. Afterwards, they broke open the door and found her lying unconscious. The police were also intimated about the incident.

Prima facie, the police considered it to be a case of robbery, however, denied the claims later after seeing the situation. A gold chain was also lying on the bed in the woman’s room and other things were also scattered all over the room.

SHO police division said, “So far, we have established that it wasn’t a robbery attempt, in fact, things were scattered after the murder, to create a loot scene. Besides, nothing was missing from the house.”

DCP Investigation, Gurmeet Singh, said it was a pre-planned murder case. The investigating teams are collecting evidences and locals are being quizzed.

The cops also recovered a diary from the woman’s room, in which the numbers of all visitors and relatives are written. Based on the numbers, her family members are also being interrogated. — TNS