Autopsy reveals details of flour mill owner’s murder

Body parts suspected to be of a flour mill owner allegedly killed by a DLF Phase-2 resident, 76-year-old Harnek Singh Dhillon, on October 14, were handed over to the family members of the deceased, following a postmortem on Sunday.

On Saturday, the police recovered five body parts suspected to be of 51-year-old Jaskaran Singh from near Doraha canal in Ludhiana. The body parts were taken to Punjab, where his last rites were performed on Sunday, said the family members.

“A medical board consisting of a panel of three doctors was formed to conduct the autopsy. The board will submit its report within a week. Viscera and blood samples will be sent to a forensic laboratory for tests. The cause of death can only be ascertained after the submission of the report,” said Ajay Veer Bhandana, station house officer (SHO), Sector 29 police station.

“Multiple wound marks were found on the chest that indicated attack by a sharp weapon,” said Dr Deepak Mathur, forensic expert at Civil Hospital.

“Despite a day-long search, the police could not recover the head of the victim,” Bhadana said. Investigation into the matter has, however, revealed some grisly details of the case.

Dhillon told the police that on October 14, he went to Singh’s house at 12pm and asked him to visit his house at 2pm. Meanwhile, he called his servant and asked him to hide in the washroom of the guestroom. When Singh reached his house, he lured him to the room, where the servant grabbed the victim, enabling Dhillon to attack him with a ‘kirpan’ (a dagger carried by Sikhs). Dhillon had sent his wife to MGF Metropolitan Mall for shopping. She returned after the neighbours alerted her about noises coming from her house.

“Dhillon and his servant stabbed the victim multiple times and chopped his body into pieces. They then kept the parts in his car and drove to Doraha. We checked CCTV footage from different locations, in which Dhillon can be seen driving the car,”SHO said.

On October 15, when the police had gone to Dhillon’s house to investigate a missing person’s report filed by the deceased’s wife, they found scratches on his hand. Dhillon told the police that he was injured by a monkey a day before. Vinod Kumar, assistant sub-inspector who was investigating the case, said Dhillon’s wife wanted to confess to the police regarding the murder, but was stopped by Dhillon. He murdered his wife on October 20.