‘Journalist was stabbed 15 times, told brother about a man near house’
MOHALI: Senior journalist KJ Singh, 63, who along with his mother, Gurcharan Kaur, 92, was found murdered at his house in Mohali’s Phase 3B2 on Saturday afternoon was stabbed around 14-15 times, doctors at Mohali civil hospital said after the post-mortem.
Doctors said he was attacked with sharp-edged weapons, due to which his internal visceral organs were severely damaged.
Meanwhile, the senior journalist and his mother were cremated at 1pm on Sunday.
Singh, a bachelor, was a former news editor of the Indian Express, The Times of India and The Tribune in Chandigarh.
HAD CALLED BROTHER ABOUT A ‘MAN LURKING’
Sources in the police said KJ Singh had informed his elder brother BP Singh on phone on Friday that he had spotted a person with a frail structure moving around his house between 4pm and 6pm. At one point, the man reportedly tried to open the gate of his house as well.
Singh used to stay with his mother in a one-kanal corner house, adjacent to a park. Police have also found some footprints along the railing in the park.
Singh had last spoken to his brother, who lives in Sector 41, Chandigarh, around 7pm, said their nephew Preet Inder. The journalist had also exchanged some Whatsapp messages with his friends until about 8pm.
Punjab Police have set up a special investigation team under inspector general (crime) Shashi Prabha Dwivedi to probe the case. Meanwhile, initial investigations suggest the attackers left the scene in the victim’s car.