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LUDHIANA: Five years after a 21-year-old woman was killed for honour, the Ludhiana police have arrested her father and uncle, who were declared proclaimed offenders by a local court in the murder case.
Victim Amandeep Kaur of Bathinda was then a college student. The arrested are her father Hardeep Singh, 52, and his brother Gurmeet Singh, 50, of Muhala village, Bathinda. The other accused who are at large are her mother Balwinder Kaur, uncle Baljit Singh, aunt Harmeet Kaur and relative Baljeet Gill.
Basant Avenue police post in-charge ASI Ranjeet Singh said, “The accused were arrested from Bathinda on a tip-off. Amandeep had an affair with Jaskaran Singh, a Jawaddi Kalan resident, and the two tied the knot on April 2, 2016, against the wishes of her family. On May 31, 2016, the accused kidnapped Amandeep from her in-laws’ house and took her to Bathinda.”