CLASS 12 STUDENT HACKED TO DEATH IN BATALA OVER PROPERTY DISPUTE, 2 HELD

BATALA : A class 12 student died soon after he was attacked by two persons allegedly over a property dispute outside his school at Ghuman village in the Batala sub-division of Gurdaspur district, the police said.

Two of the nine persons against whom a case, including that of murder, was registered, were arrested. Ghuman police station in-charge Surinder Singh identified those arrested as as Harmanpreet Singh and Gurmeet Kaur, victim’s neighburs.

The incident took place on Monday when Simrandeep Singh, 18, came out of Baba Namdev Senior Secondary School after appearing in his English examination. “His younger brother Harmandeep Singh was waiting for him on a bike to take him home. As the two were about to leave, two bike-borne youngsters came and attacked them with a ‘datar’ (a sharpedged weapon),” the police said.

Harmandeep, who also suffered injuries, managed to escape and rushed to the police station to inform the cops about the attack. Simrandeep, who suffered injuries on his head, neck and chest, was taken to a hospital by the school staff but was declared brought dead by doctors, said the eyewitnesses.

A CCTV footage surfaced, in which two persons are seen hitting the 18-year-old with the weapons. The assailants have not been identified yet, the police said. The family of the victim, who belongs to nearby Sellowal village, shifted to Hoshiarpur district six months ago over the alleged property dispute with their neighbours, it is learnt.