Talwandi Sabo, December 8
Mrs Jangir Kaur wife of former Jathedar of Takht Damdama Sahib, Giani Kewal Singh, and three other women have been arrested for threatening the complainant in the dowry death case of her daughter-in-law.
Giani Kewal Singh is lodged in Central Jail, Bathinda after he along with his son Baljinder Singh and other kin, Joginder Kaur, were booked for dowry death by the police. The four women were arrested today by the Sirsa police for threatening the complainant in the case, Mr Amarjit Singh.
Police sources said after Mrs Jangir Kaur and other three women, including Mrs Kulbir Kaur, wife of Mr Chamkaur Singh, brother of Giani Kewal Singh, Mrs Charanjit Kaur and Mrs Ranjit Kaur were arrested, they were remanded in judicial custody up to December 21 when they were produced in the court. The men, accompanying them escaped.
All accused were arrested when they trespassed into the house of Mr Amarjit Singh, brother of Sharanjit Kaur, the deceased daughter-in-law of Giani Kewal Singh and threatened that if he (Mr Amarjit Singh) gave evidence against Giani Kewal Singh and others, he would be killed. The car by which the accused came to his house, has also been impounded by the police after registering a case against them in the city police station, Sirsa under Sections 452, 506 and 34 of the IPC.
Giani Kewal Singh and his son Baljinder Singh husband of the deceased Sharanjit Kaur, were already in Bathinda Central Jail, after they surrendered before the court of the Sessions Judge. Bathinda, after having failed to secure bail from a court. The third accused in the dowry death case, Joginder Kaur is a free person as the court had stayed her arrest.
A case under Sections 304-B and 34 of the IPC was registered against Giani Kewal Singh, his son Baljinder Singh
and Joginder Kaur by the police here on October 31, 1999, on the directions of the Punjab and Haryana High Court moved by Mr Amarjit Singh when the police allegedly denied him justice. Sharanjit Kaur, who married Baljinder Singh on January 21, 1996, was found dead under mysterious circumstances on May 18, 1997. Her body was found floating in the sarovar of the gurdwara in the Takht Damdama Sahib complex situated opposite to the then official residence of Giani Kewal Singh.
In the FIR Registered by the city police station, Sirsa, a copy of which was procured by The Tribune, Mr Amarjit Singh, who was to give evidence in the court of the Additional Sessions Judge, Bathinda, where Giani Kewal Singh and his son and Joginder Kaur, have been facing trial, alleged that today morning at 8.30 am four women barged into his house. The women threatened that he would be killed if he gave evidence against Giani Kewal Singh and others on December 10.
Mr Amarjit Singh, when contacted, said he had been receiving threats on the phone for the past several months. The pressure was being put on him not to give evidence against Giani Kewal Singh and others.
