Woman’s body with 8 gunshot wounds in head found in fields

Our Correspondent

Hoshiarpur, April 22

The body of a woman of Khadiala Sainian village was found near the fields at Boore Rajputan village near Adda Sikri on Tanda Road here on Thursday. The police reached the spot and sent the body to the Civil Hospital for a postmortem and started investigation.

According to information received, the woman was brutally murdered as eight gunshot wounds were found in her head. The deceased, identified as Manpreet Kaur, is said to be a mother to two children and her husband lives in Kuwait. It is said that their divorce proceedings were on and she was in live-in relationship with another man.

According to the sources, about two months ago, Manpreet had given a written complaint to the SSP in which she had accused a police head constable of sexually abusing her for three years by making a false promise of marriage, which is still under investigation.

DSP Gurpreet Singh, who was present on the spot, said unidentified persons killed the victim by shooting eight times in her head. He said the woman’s divorce case was under way and she was in a live-in relationship with a man and she was now having a dispute with that man.

He said investigation was being done from all aspects and would be able to ascertain the reasons behind the murder only after the completion of the probe.

SP RPS Sandhu said investigation was being done in the case. He said the police had found four shells of .32 bore from the spot. In response to a question, he said the complaint lodged by Manpreet Kaur against the policeman was being looked into. He said she was shot from a close range and the police had registered an FIR against unidentified persons.

The police have registered a case of murder against unidentified persons in the case.