Tohana (Fatehabad), November 11
In yet another case of honour killing, relatives of a girl chased the boy she had married against their wishes and shot him dead. They rammed their Alto car into the mobike he was riding. As he slipped, they fired two bullets. One hit his belly and the other the forehead. He died instantly.

The police has arrested Jagjit Singh, brother of the girl, Kirandeep, and her uncle Tehal Singh for the gruesome murder. The victim, Sukhbir (30), a resident of Rajgarh Dhobi village, ran a cable network in Peepaltheh village.

Both villages fall under the Narwana subdivision of Jind district and are located close to Tohana. Sukhbir had come to the town for work. As he was returning home at noon, a white Maruti Alto car began trailing him. The car hit his mobike near the DHBVN office on Hisar Road. Two men came out of the car and one of them fired two bullets at him from a pistol.

The bullets hit the victim on his forehead and the belly and he died on the spot.

The assailants fled after the crime, but were nabbed at a barricade. The body ofd Sukhbir Singh was taken to the General Hospital here for postmortem. Sukhbir, a Jat, had married Kirandeep, a Sikh, from Peepaltheh, had got married three months back after elopement. The girl’s family had been threatening Sukhbir of dire consequences, said the victim’s brother, Sandeep.

The SP, Jagwant Singh Lamba, said Kirandeep’s brother Jagjit Singh and uncle Tehal Singh had been arrested under Sections 302 and 34 of the IPC on Sandeep’s complaint.

Jind: Sukhbir had married Kirandeep on April 25 this year against the wishes of her parents and had sought police security.Their marriage took place at an Arya Samaj temple in Delhi.The High Court in its order on April 30 had directed the Jind police to provide security to the couple.

According to the SHO Sadar, OP Bishnoi, the couple appeared before the SDM on July 6, asking that the security to them be withdrawn as they no longer perceived threat to their life.