Ludhiana: A woman, 39, has accused her neighbour, 45, and his son, 22, of trying to rape her minor daughter on Monday night.
The woman said in her police complaint, “I had borrowed Rs 10,000 from the neighbour, who is a liquor smuggler, a few months ago. As I could not pay back, he threatened me of dire consequences. Around 9.30pm Monday, when my husband was at work and my 16-year-old daughter and I were at home, he and his son both of whom were drunk barged into our house. The two thrasher my daughter, a Class X student, and attempted to rape her. When I tried to save her, they hit me with a stick. On hearing my cries, a neighbourhood woman came in. The duo thrashed her too and threatened to implicate her son as she tried to rescue my daughter.”
Nikhil Bhardwaj
Ludhiana, March 6
Following a scuffle with a neighbour, a man killed the neighbour’s two sons and later committed suicide at Rajiv Gandhi Colony in Focal Point here on Saturday.
The man used to stalk the mother of the boys owing to which their father had a scuffle with the accused which led to the killings.
Additional DCP Rupinder Kaur Sra said as per initial investigation, Shalinder Kumar committed suicide after murdering the boys.
The boys have been identified as Rajnish (8) and Manish (6), sons of Shiv Shankar Tiwari, originally from UP’s Bahraich.
Both the accused and the victims family lived in a migrants’ vehra. The incident took place around 11.30 am.
Ludhiana: Two masked men on a motorcycle shot at a businessman in HE block of Jamalpur on Monday. The accused fired four bullets at Gurwinder Singh, 35, of which one grazed his neck and the others missed their mark. An eyewitness, who is a friend of Gurwinder, rushed him to a hospital and informed the police.
Gurwinder runs an automobile workshop and lives near it in Jamalpur.
The eyewitness said, “Gurwinder was walking on the road when I heard some noise around 10.30am. At first, I thought someone was bursting crackers, but when I saw Gurwinder falling on the road, I rushed towards him and found him injured. I took him to a hospital and called up the police.”
Ludhiana: Dead body of Pyara Singh of Sherpur village, who had become traceless after killing his wife and daughter five days ago, was recovered from Doraha Canal on Wednesday morning.
According to the police, Pyara Singh had killed his wife and daughter using a hammer and later jumped into the canal to end his life. However, with the recovery of his body, the possibility of the exact cause of the double murder being unravelled is almost over.
On February 12, Pyara Singh, 60, a labourer, had killed his wife Swaranjit Kaur, 53, and daughter Rajwant Kaur, 28, with a hammer, the police said. Thereafter, he reached Doraha canal and called up his nephew to inform him about his crime and said he was also going to commit suicide. Then he switched off his mobile phone.