Puneet Sandhu murder case: Court acquits all 4 accused

Model’s sister and mother had turned hostile later.

Additional District and Sessions Judge Anshu Shukla on Tuesday acquitted all four accused in the infamous Puneet Sandhu murder case.

The police had booked all the four, Ram Lal Chaudhary, his daughter Anju Walia, Supreet Singh and Manpreet Singh, under sections 302 (punishment for murder) read with 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention), 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 419 (punishment for cheating by impersonation), 471 (using as genuine a forged document) of the Indian Penal Code, and sections 25, 54, 59 of the Arms Act.

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Model Puneet Sandhu was shot dead on August 16, 2014, late in the evening at her flat in Sector 49. Sandhu’s sister Avneet Kaur later gave a statement to the police that Ram Lal Chaudhary and his daughter Anju had hatched the conspiracy of murdering Puneet as Ram Lal’s son Amit alias Amu was having an affair with her. He was ignoring his family, she alleged.

In her statement to the police, Avneet had alleged that Amit had promised to marry Puneet after divorcing his wife. Thereafter, Ram Lal threatened to kill Puneet, believing that she was the reason for the marital discord. However, Avneet and her mother later turned hostile.

During the course of investigation, the police found that Ram Lal’s daughter Anju, a resident Mansa Devi Complex, Panchkula, had planned the conspiracy to kill Puneet in connivance with her friend Supreet. She had also arranged the weapon from accused Manpreet Singh alias Lali.

As per the prosecution, Ram Lal had hired contract killers Supreet and Manpreet to whom he had given an advance of Rs 1 lakh with which they had purchased a pistol. The police had also recovered blood-stained clothes from Supreet’s residence but the DNA sample didn’t match.

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