punjab murderIn a devious plan to claim an insurance amount of Rs 4 crore, a businessman facing huge losses allegedly killed his friend to fake his death in Punjab’s Fatehgarh Sahib.
According to Senior Superintendent of Police Ravjot Kaur Grewal, the accused, identified as Gurpreet Singh of Ramdas Nagar, planned the murder of Sukhjit Singh with the help of his wife Khushdeep Kaur and four other persons – Sukhwinder Singh Sangha, Jaspal Singh, Was. Dinesh Kumar and Rajesh Kumar, PTI reported. All of them have been arrested.
The victim, Sukhjit, lived in Sainpur area and went missing on June 19, following which his wife Jeevandeep Kaur filed a missing complaint. Police initially suspected suicide when they found his motorcycle and slippers near a canal in Patiala.
It is learned that Gurpreet had befriended Sukhjeet with the intention of killing him and had spiked his drink to make him unconscious on the day of the murder. The victim’s clothes were changed and she was crushed under the truck so that her body could not be identified. Police said that even then the dead body was identified by his wife.
Sukhjeet’s wife Jeevandeep told the police that Gurpreet had been buying liquor for her for the last few days. However, during police interrogation, Gurpreet’s family said that he died in a road accident, raising suspicion. Police said that his family had also lodged a complaint on Gurpreet’s ‘road accident’.
Police said that when Gurpreet’s family was questioned again, the entire conspiracy to fake his death to claim the insurance amount of Rs 4 crore came to the fore.
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