City Briefs

Two more held in Payal murder case

The police,on Thursday,arrested two more people in connection with the Payal murder case. Sarbati and Jaipal,the two arrested persons,are members of the family of Payal’s husband. They have been sent to judicial custody. The police had earlier arrested Payal’s husband,Vinod,and his relative Jaswant Singh for the murder. Payal was found dead in a water tank at her in-laws’ house in Sector 26 on November 19 last year. The police were told that it was a suicide,but they believed she was strangled and her body was dumped in the water tank. Post-mortem reports confirmed it was a murder with doctors ruling that she died of asphyxiation.