1 arrested for murder
The Sahnewal police station today claimed to have solved a murder case within 24 hours with the arrest of the accused. The accused has been identified as Sarabjit Singh (25), alias Savi, a resident of Umaidpur village.
The police said on September 1, Jagdev Singh, alias Jagga, (55) of Umaidpur was killed and his body was found in a park. Next day, deceased’s sister Rajwinder Kaur blamed Sarabjit Singh for the murder. The police after getting a tip off about the location of the accused arrested him.
Notably, the accused had killed Jagdev by hitting a cement plate on his head.
The police said Jagdev had given Rs 1,000 to the mother of the accused Sarabjit and the latter had not been returning the money. Recently, Jagdev abused Sarabjit’s mother when she failed to return the money and when Sarabjit came to know about it, he decided to eliminate Jagdev.
