Hindustan Times (Jalandhar)

Mystery over IAS aspirant’s death in Ggm

- HT Correspond­ent letterschd@hindustant­imes.com

23-year-old woman, who was preparing for Indian Administra­tive Service (IAS), died nearly four hours after she checked into a guest house facility in Sector 46 on Monday evening with a man known to her, the police said. The police said the male acquaintan­ce, who is absconding, took the woman to a private hospital in Sector 44 around midnight and fled.

Inderjit Singh, assistant commission­er of police at Sadar, said the deceased, identified by her first name Priyanka, and her acquaintan­ce, Ravinder Yadav (24), checked into a room on the second floor of a guest house facility at 8.30pm in Sector 46, nearly nine kilometres from her parental house in Kadipur industrial area near Sector 10.

“At 1am, the police got a call from the hospital about a woman, who had been declared brought dead. However, the family of the deceased have alleged that the man, who lived in their neighbourh­ood, had kidnapped and killed their daughter. We are conducting raids to trace the accused,” Singh said.

The father of the deceased, Prem Chand, had lodged a complaint to this effect and the police filed a case of murder at the Sector 50 police station. Sector 50 station house officer Surender Singh Phogat said the autopsy report was awaited. The police added that for the past three months Priyanka was putting up at a paying guest accommodat­ion in Delhi, where she had enrolled in coaching classes for IAS exams.

Chand, who owns a flour mill, alleged his daughter had been kidnapped and murdered by Ravinder Yadav of Saraswati Enclave, who had been harassing Priyanka for some time.

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