3 held for killing youth
Main suspect being shielded: widow
Varinder Singh
Tribune News Service
Hoshiarpur, November 27
The Hoshiarpur police has arrested three of the four persons suspected of hacking Jasbir Singh to death with swords on Tuesday at Jahankhelan village bus stand for marrying a girl from another caste.
Meanwhile, business establishments in the main bazaar of Jahankhelan village were opened today.
The Hoshiarpur police today arrested the suspects Naresh Kumar, alias Jagga, son of Sukhchain Singh, Subhash Chand Bagga and Daljit Singh Jeeta, sons of Daya Ram from the Jamun Wala Choe here today. Parbhat Singh, Pappi, the main accusedaccording to Geeta, the wife of Jasbir Singh, was however, still at large.
Mr Lok Nath, SSP, said the suspects had been absconding since Tuesday morning. During the preliminary interrogation the three persons confessed to their involvement in the crime. The motive behind the crime was the marriage of the deceased with Geeta in a court and this love marriage was not acceptable to Geeta’s relatives, said Mr Lok Nath. He said the complainant, Geeta, had been provided with a security cover and the SHO (Sadar) and the DSO (Rural) had been visiting the family after the crime took place in order to instill a sense of security among the family members. Police parties are also patrolling the area,said Mr Lok Nath, adding that all efforts would be made to nab the fourth accused.
On the other hand, while admitting that adequate security has been provided to her by the police, Geeta wife of the deceased, today alleged that some police officials and a prominent politician from the village were trying to shield the main accused, Prabhat Singh, who was still at large.
A police official from our village and a political person, who had instigated the youth of our Rajput community against Jasbir after our marriage, are behind the surrender of the three accused as they want Parbhat Pappi to go scott free. I have come to know that they had even offered Rs 50,000 to some youth for killing Jasbir, who according to them had humiliated their whole community by marrying a Rajput girl, alleged Geeta. She said it was Pappi, who had chopped off Jasbir’s arm before killing him in cold blood and it was he who had thrown it in front of house of Jasbirs aunt Kapoor Kaur before fleeing from the scene of crime along with others.
The SP, Mr Opinderjit Singh Ghumman, said further investigation was on and hoped that the police would recover arms allegedly used by the suspects soon.
HOSHIARPUR: Four persons belonging to the Rajput community brutally murdered 22-year-old Jasbir Singh of the Jat community for marrying a Rajput girl at Jahankhelan village about 7 km from here.
Jasbir Singh and Geeta had got married two months back at Chandigarh in the high court, as Geeta's maternal grandparents and relatives were against this marriage.
The four accused -Daljit Singh, Subash Singh, Prabhat Singh and Naresh Kumar - attacked Jasbir with swords and killed him, as he was about to board a bus at about 9 am from the Jahankhelan bus stop.
According to reports, the accused took a severed shoulder of Jasbir Singh and threw it in the compound of the deceased's house.
The Sadar police have registered a case but no arrest has been made so far.
