Fourth accused held in Anmol murder case

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, March 2

The police have arrested another youth in connection with the abduction and killing of a teenage girl Anmol Kaur. The accused was identified as Pardeep Singh, another friend of Lovedeep, the prime accused in the murder case. Besides Lovedeep, the police had already nabbed his father Sukhchain Singh and a friend Sartaz Singh in the case.

Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police Sandeep Malik said Lovedeep had used the mobile phone of Pardeep to contact Anmol. He said he was aware of the plan of Lovedeep.

Anmol was kidnapped and murdered at an under-construction house in a colony on the Loharaka road on Wednesday. It took the police three days to arrest the prime accused. To hoodwink the police and family members, Lovedeep made an extortion call to his family. As per police officials, he was a jilted lover as the girl had refused to marry him. He had planned the murder a week ago.

The police arrested Lovedeep’s father Sukhchain Singh and his friend Sartaz Singh in the case as their revolver and car, respectively, were used in the crime.

As per details, Lovedeep called Anmol from Pardeep’s phone and requested her to meet him outside her house. Anmol used to study in a beauty salon academy located on the Mall Road area. They were friends in the past.

The police said Anmol came to meet her and alighted from the bus in the Ranjit Avenue area. The accused picked her up from there and later took her towards the Loharaka Road area where he shot her dead and dumped her body in an under-construction house in a colony on Wednesday. The body was recovered after the disclosure of Lovedeep Singh.

Former Excise Department employee robbed of Rs50K

Two armed persons looted Rs 50,000 from an elderly man in the Bhawani Nagar area falling under the Sadar police station in broad daylight here on Monday. The victim, who is identified as Tilak Raj, retired from the Excise Department a few years ago.

He was returning home after withdrawing his pension from the bank. The entire incident was captured on the CCTV camera. Tilak Raj told the police that he stopped outside his residence and was opening the gate when a youth, who was carrying a pistol, came from the rear and covered his mouth so that he could not raise the alarm. He thrashed the victim and later snatched the money and fled on a bike along with his accomplice.

The police said a case was registered and CCTV camera footage and pictures were being circulated in all the police stations. They said the police were trying to identify the accused by showing photographs of history-sheeters.