Police solve 6-yr-old missing NRI case, nab son for murder

Phagwara, Aug 28 (UNI) Police have solved a six-year-old NRI missing case after exhuming his skeleton and nabbed his son, who allegedly had an affair with his step-mother and had killed his father to grab his property.

The decomposed remains of the UK-based NRI Surjit Singh were dug out by a team of local police, headed by ASP Dr Sukhchain Singh Gill, here late last night after demolishing the labourers quarters built by his son Daljit Singh on the plot in local Mansa Devi Nagar.

He had buried his father there after killing him.

According to Police, Daljit, younger son of the deceased killed his father after a property dispute on November 4, 2000. Surjit Singh was married to Harbhajan Kaur and had two sons. He re-married another woman Gurdev Kaur when he went to the UK.

He spent six months alternately in the UK and in India. His younger son, Daljit Singh, reportedly fell in love with his own step-mother Gurdev Kaur and developed relations with her during her regular visits to Phagwara.

When the deceased, apparently after coming to know of the illicit affair, declared his intention to give his property to his first wife, the accused reportedly hatched a consipiracy with his step-mother to kill the NRI father.

Daljit took his father to visit their plots on November 4, 2000 in local Mansa Devi Nagar here where he battered him with iron rods and then strangulated him. The son returned home after burying the dead body ten-feet-deep in the plot and told everyone that his father had left for the UK.

His mother Harbhajan, however, got suspicious when Daljit used documents like General Power of Attorney by his father in his name to sell one of the plots and lodged a complaint with the local police.

Police sources said Daljit confessed to his crime during interrogation and on his disclosures, police visited the place where the accused had constructed some labourers' quarters to hide his crime.

The police had to demolish the quarters before digging the ground and exhuming the skeleton which has been sent to the civil hospital.

Its pieces would be sent to forensic labs for further investigations. Police has also recovered clothes staincal in blood near the decomposed skelton.

Police have arrested Daljit under sections 302/201 /420/415/476/ 468/and 471 IPC.

UNI