Gurdaspur, March 12
The Gurdaspur police has arrested the daughter of a RMP doctor Ashwani Mahajan, who was done to death on the intervening night of March 9 and 10 in what the police has termed as a sensational murder case, and her paramour and two of his friends today.

SSP Raj Jit Singh Hundal said the case had assumed importance as the policemen had invited criticism over the doctor's death which had occurred in one of the busiest areas of the town.

He said several teams worked on the case on various angles following which the 18-year-old college going daughter of the deceased, identified as Ekas, was arrested along with her paramour Hari Om and two of his friends-Anmoldeep Singh and Mithu Kumar. One other person, identified as Zorawar Singh, who is suspected to have played a major role in the murder, is still at large.

The SSP said teams had been sent to his suspected hideouts and he is expected to be nabbed within the next 48 hours.

The SSP said the police had zeroed on the assailants in a short span of time and had arrested four of the suspects. "We have restored the confidence of the people in the police force with the arrests. The fourth assailant will be arrested soon," he added.

The police said Ekas was having an affair with Hari Om, who owned a shoe shop near the girl's house. The two were having a relationship for the last three years.

Ekas and Hari Om conspired and hatch a plan to do away with the girl's father. On the day of the incident, she rang up her boyfriend, who turned up at her house with three of his accomplices where they murdered Ashwani Mahajan with sharp-edged weapons when he was sleeping. Mahajan and his wife, Ritu, had already been drugged by their daughter before the couple had dozed off.

Hari Om and his friends had also looted 190 gm of gold and Rs 10,000 in cash before they brutally assaulted the doctor.

A case was registered at the Gurdaspur police station under Sections 460 and 458 of the IPC on a complaint filed by Ritu, wife of Ashwani Mahajan.