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35-yr-old woman set afire; husband, stepsons booked
Tarn Taran, August 21
A married woman was set on fire at Master Colony here last evening. The woman’s second husband and his four family members, including his two sons from his first marriage, have been booked by the police. Police sources said here today that a case under Sections 307, 498 A of the IPC had been registered against the accused.

Probe gurdwara shootout incidents: BSP
Phagwara, August 21
Linking the shootout at a gurdwara in Austria in 2009 to the recent attack at a gurdwara in the USA, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) today asked the Union Government to probe both strikes to prevent such incidents in future.

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35-yr-old woman set afire; husband, stepsons booked
Our Correspondent

Tarn Taran, August 21
A married woman was set on fire at Master Colony here last evening. The woman’s second husband and his four family members, including his two sons from his first marriage, have been booked by the police. Police sources said here today that a case under Sections 307, 498 A of the IPC had been registered against the accused.

The woman, who suffered up to 70 per cent burn injuries, had been referred to CMC, Ludhiana, from a local private hospital.

The accused have been identified as Kashmir Singh, father-in-law, Gurdatar Singh, husband, Amritpal Singh and Surinderpal Singh (both sons from his first marriage) along with Paramjit Kaur (her husband’s married sister).

The woman, identified as Rajwinder Kaur (35), in her serious condition recorded her statement to Ajay Mittal, Judicial Magistrate, Class I.

Rajwinder said the accused sprinkled kerosene on her and when she tried to rescue herself, they threw a lit matchstick on her.

Rajwinder was admitted to a local private hospital from where she was shifted to a Chabal hospital. Later, she was shifted to CMC, Ludhiana.

Investigating officer ASI Partap Singh said the victim was fighting between life and death at CMC Hospital.

Rajwinder was married to Gurdatar Singh only four months ago after her first marriage proved unsuccessful.

On the other side, Gurdatar’s first wife died sometime ago and he, after his retirement from the Army, got himself married to Rajwinder.

The accused Amritpal and Surinderpal were the sons from the first marriage of Gurdatar.

Battling for Life

The victim, Rajwinder Kaur, suffered up to 70 per cent burns
She has been referred to CMC, Ludhiana, from a private hospital in Tarn Taran
Rajwinder, in her statement to the police, said the accused sprinkled kerosene on her and when she tried to rescue herself, they threw a lit matchstick on her
The victim got married to Gurdatar Singh only four months back after her first marriage proved unsuccessful

Probe gurdwara shootout incidents: BSP

Phagwara, August 21
Linking the shootout at a gurdwara in Austria in 2009 to the recent attack at a gurdwara in the USA, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) today asked the Union Government to probe both strikes to prevent such incidents in future.

Punjab BSP president Avtar Singh Karimpuri said here today that the Centre had conveniently ignored his suggestion made in the Rajya Sabha for sending a national investigating agency (NIA) team to Austria to probe the Vienna shootout in which Sant Rama Nand of Dera Sach Khand Ballan was killed.

"Who funded the attack, provided weapons to the assailants and hatched the conspiracy should have been probed," he said.

"Had the Vienna conspiracy been unravelled, the Oak Creek (Wisconsin) incident could have been averted," Karimpuri claimed. "It is high time for the Central government to rectify its error by sending an NIA team to probe both Vienna and Wisconsin gurdwara shootouts so that such despicable incidents do not recur," he said. — OC