MAN MURDERED, BURIED, DUG UP AND THEN CUT INTO PIECES

AMRITSAR:THE Tarsikka police of the district have arrested six people for allegedly kidnapping a 30-yearold man, killing him, burying his body, digging it out again and then cutting it into pieces and throwing them into a canal in Dasua town of Hoshiarpur district.

The deceased was identified as Laddi, a resident of Gurdaspur, who had come to Khujala village falling in Tarsikka on May 19 to meet his uncle Masoor Ali.

The accused have been identified as Shariff Muhammad, alias Sia of Dhianpur village, Yakoob Khan of Ludhiana, Jahoora of Beas, Jannat Ali of Gurdaspur, Yakoob Ali of Tarn Taran and Bag Hussain of Kahnuwan in Gurdaspur.

Ssp-rural Parampal Singh said, “On May 20, Laddi’s father Kasam Din, who is a Gujjar, had lodged a complaint stating that on May 19 his son had gone to Khujala village in Tarsikka to meet his uncle Masoor Ali, but he did not return.”

The SSP said, “After some days, Kasam expressed his suspicion that the accused might have kidnapped his son. Following this, a special team was set up to arrest the accused. We managed to arrest them on Saturday from their homes.”

“During interrogation, the accused said they had kidnapped and killed Laddi. They also confessed that soon after killing him, they buried him and after some days dug his body out and then chopped it off into tiny pieces. They said they drowned the pieces into a canal in Ucchi Bassi village in Dasua town in Hoshiarpur district,” he added.

He said after the accused confessed to their crime, a case under sections 302 (punishment for murder), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence) and120-b (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC has been registered against them.

The SSP said one of the accused Sharif Muhammad’s brother had died last year.

“Laddi had married Sharif’s sister-in-law (brother’s wife) due to which Sharif had been nursing a grudge against Laddi,” he added. Sharif, along with other accused, who are his relatives, killed Laddi.

“After presenting all the six in a local court, we have taken them on police remand,” he added.