The doctor, according to the documents procured by The Tribune, had conducted a pregnancy test and subsequently diagnosed that the test was positive on February 12. The doctor had further referred her for ultrasound and other tests to a Sector 22 diagnostic centre. Interestingly, the certificate issued by the Sector 39 doctor shows Harpreet as wife of Kamaljit, residing at 955, Sector 39, Chandigarh, which is the official residence of Bibi Jagir Kaur, where the young “lovers” used to meet in the latter’s absence against her wishes.

Defying the dictats of Bibi Jagir Kaur, Harpreet and Kamaljit had even organised a ring ceremony function (see picture) in a Chandigarh hotel in February after Harpreet learnt that she was pregnant. Though the Bibi did not participate, Balwinder Kaur and Rosy, mother and sister of Kamaljit alias Tinku respectively and some of his close relatives attended the function. After the function and after learning that her daughter was pregnant, the Bibi reportedly mellowed down and more or less gave a “recognition” to the relationship. “We had been treating her as our daughter in law,” said a sobbing Balwinder Kaur and her husband Darshan Singh, who feared a threat to their lives. “She did not die a natural death as is being said, but had indeed been killed,” they alleged. They said she had been forcibly kept by the Bibi at the residence of Dalwinder Kaur Raipur, sister of Paramjit Singh Raipur, one of her close confidants, in Joginder Nagar, Phagwara. At this place she had also given a birth to a male baby on March 19, with the help of a nurse of a nearby private clinic. “Harpreet had told me that she could see her child only once, just after its birth but she was not aware of the child after that,” said Balwinder Kaur. Fed up with her “detention”, Harpreet had jumped out of her first floor room in the house on April 9 and had reached the Bidhi Railway crossing on the out skirts of Jalandhar and had called Kamaljit and his sister Rosy by making a phone call from the public call office booth there. After this, they proceeded on to Rai village near Sonepat, where they stayed with the mother of one of Rosy’s friends, a teacher in the sports school there. According to Darshan Singh and Balwinder Kaur, irked over the elopement of her daughter Bibi Jagir Kaur had sent a police party to her Begowal residence, which was strongly objected to by Harpreet.” After learning about the act of her mother, Harpreet called up Bibi from Rai over the telephone.

They came back only after the assurance by Bibi Jagir that she would arrange their marriage,” pointed out Balwinder Kaur. “Bibi asked Kamaljit to come along with his passport to Dalwinder Kaur’s Phagwara residence on April 13, where she would be halting for a while. She promised that she would get them married and will arrange to send them to England. At the same time Bibi put a condition that they won’t meet each other till marriage, but both were allowed to talk over the telephone. Practically, she was not allowed to meet Kamaljit after April 11 when she “settled” the affair in presence of a number of people at Phagwara. Bibi also instructed Rosy to remain with Harpreet till the solemnisation of marriage,” said Darshan Singh and Balwinder Kaur. Balwinder Kaur stated that though Bibi had agreed for the marriage, but had probably failed to digest the fact that a poor boy was going to marry her daughter. “About three years back, Simranjit was locked in a room in her dera at Begowal and was beaten up by her driver and four others. He was saved by Kamaljit, who got to know about the incident from a small child accompanying Simranjeet,” recalled Balwinder Kaur, and added that she was not allowed to see Harpreet’s face at cremation but she forced her way and noticed a big black scar on one side of her face. “We are sure that she had been killed,” alleged Balwinder Kaur and Darshan Singh while speaking to the TNS from the place, where they are hiding at present.