Probe nowhere, police changing stance frequently

KURUKSHETRA:With the probe into the disappearance of a 15-yearold girl and an 18-year-old youth from Kurukshetra’s Jhansa village on January 9 and subsequent recovery of their bodies having reached nowhere, police have been changing their change frequently.

The police are in the dock for floating different theories and their inability to ascertain whether they were kidnapped, murdered for honour or they committed suicide.

HOW COPS WENT WRONG

The police did not swing into action for three days until their Jind counterparts recovered the body of the Class-10 girl near a canal at Jind’s Budhakhera village on January 12. Hours after she did not return home from her tuition classes, her father accused the police of inaction. “Had the police responded timely, my daughter would have been alive,” he had said.

Not only this, the police initially suspected Gulshan (18) of raping and murdering the girl and launched a hunt for him and detained about a dozen people from his family and school circle for interrogation.

But the police theory fell flat with the recovery of Gulshan’s body from the same canal where he was seen last with the girl on January 9 evening, forcing them to look into other angles that the two were kidnapped and murdered. A police officer, who is part of the probe, said, “In the beginning, we thought that the girl might have eloped with the youth as the police accessed their call details.”

“But the delay might have given enough time to the criminal(s), if the two were killed, and that is why the police are still clueless in the case,” he said.

PROBE FROM SCRATCH

After Gulshan’s body was recovered, the police released his family members and friends who were suspected of allegedly helping him. The investigation team has revisited the spot where the girl’s body was found and is talking to more people at Jind’s Budhakhera and Kurukshetra’s Jhansa to get some lead.

Gulshan’s autopsy report suggests drowning as the main cause of his death, thus the possibility of suicide cannot be ruled out. But forensic experts, who conducted postmortem on the girl’s body, said she was murdered, putting a question mark on another police theory that they might have committed suicide after a failed love affair.