Three officials of the Chandigarh Police were arrested in connection with the murder of a woman and her son who were kidnapped by armed men from Hansi in Haryana on Monday night and whose bodies were found in Hanumangarh district of Rajasthan on Tuesday evening. Inspector Satya Bala, Sub-Inspector Raj Bala and constable Daljeet are siblings from Hisar. Those killed were their stepmother Santosh alias Guddi, 50, and her son Sandeep, 22. The arrests were made by a Haryana Police party, led by Deputy Superintendent of Police Bhagwan Dass, who said a property dispute was the cause of the crime. [related-post] According to Superintendent of Police (City) Parvinder Singh, the Haryana Police informed them that they wanted to take away the three for questioning in connection with the kidnapping which had taken place in Hansi on Monday night. Inspector Satya Bala and constable Daljeet were posted in Indian Reserve Battalion and Sub-Inspector Raj Bala at the Sector 26 police station. The two women resisted the Haryana Police which then formally arrested the trio and took them to Hisar. Later in the day, bullet-riddled bodies of Santosh and Sandeep were found dumped on a roadside in Hanumangarh in Rajasthan, around 300 km from Hansi, DSP Bhagwan Dass said. “The bodies were found by the local police. They sent us the pictures and the deceased have been verified. We have arrested Satya Bala, Raj Bala and Daljeet. A fourth brother of the trio, Jagjit, is one of the murderers. The three were part of the conspiracy,” said the DSP. Sources said that the father of the trio, Randhir Singh Phelwan, a famous wrestler, had married thrice and had left behind ancestral property worth crores. The trio are children of his second wife Ram Payari. His first wife Phoola Devi and her two sons Baljeet and Amarjeet were murdered in 1980. For the killings, Ram Payari and two of her sons were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. Guddi Devi was Phelwan’s third wife. On June 11 last year, the half-burnt body of the fifth sibling of the trio, 27-year-old Manjit, was found buried near a rivulet at Dabwali in Sirsa. The body had two bullet wounds and was half burnt. Manjit was allegedly shot at the behest of Santosh and Sandeep.
