Muktsar man gets death for drowning wife, 2 kids

BATHINDA : A resident of Attari village in Muktsar was awarded death sentence on Thursday by a court for drowning his wife, two young children and his lover’s husband to death in 2015.

District and sessions judge Arunvir Vashista observed that the crime committed by Palwinder Singh and Karamjit Kaur falls in the rarest of rare category.

Karamjit, however, was sentenced to life imprisonment.

All were the residents of the same village.

The detailed judgment of the case was not available with the prosecution lawyers till Thursday evening.

Muktsar district attorney Naveen Girdhar said on June 20, 2015, Palwinder’s car drowned in the Gang canal near Fattanwala village, in which his wife Sarabjit Kaur, daughter Gaganpreet Kaur, son Jashanpreet Singh and Karamjit’s husband Nirmal Singh were killed in a planned manner.

Girdhar said as Palwinder and Karamjit had an illicit relationship, the prosecution proved in the court that the two conspired to eliminate their families.

After solemnising marriage on January 27, 2016, they filed a protection petition in Muktsar.

Prosecution lawyer MS Brar said after sensing a foul play in the deaths, deceased Sarabjit’s brother Gurnishan Singh filed a police complaint in March 2016.

Defence lawyer Babu Singh Sidhu said the instances of buying life insurance policy by Palwinder for his wife and another insurance policy in the name of Nirmal Singh were treated as main evidences against the convicts.

“After analysing the judgment, we will file an appeal against the death sentence in the Punjab and Haryana High Court,” said Sidhu.