Three days,3 murders,city panics as crime graph surges

On Thursday last,a highly decomposed body of 10-year-old boy was found from near the Gurdwara Dukhniwaran Sahib. Three days before that,factory worker Dhan Bahadur was found murdered in Lato Dana village under the jurisdiction of Sahnewal police station area. On Monday last,armed robbers had looted Rs 18 lakh from a factory supervisor in Focal Point.

Where these three murders on consecutive days have caused panic among the city residents,these have also given an opportunity to political leaders to train guns on each other.

Congress MLA from Kila Raipur Jassi Khangura said,”After every crime,we have a press conference by the police claiming to have cracked a previous case only to learn the next day that another serious incident has taken place,” he said.

Khangura said it can never be worse than this. “A tehsildar is stripped and beaten up in the public,an SP is thrashed black and blue,vehicles and cash are snatched at gunpoint,a hospital is ransacked and now when a brave boy tried to save the money of his company,he paid with his life,” Khangura said adding that there was total anarchy in the city.

Blaming the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharitya Janata Party alliance for lawlessness,he said the Chief Minister and his entire herd of ministers and legislators were busy showing their presence and loyalty in Jallalabad,while the city has been left at the mercy of robbers and assassins.

However,SSP Dr Sukhchain Singh Gill said,”Out of the three murders,we have almost solved two and have identified the accused. The murder of CMS employees has been solved.”

CMS agent’s murder: Two arrested
The police claim to have solved the attempted robbery and murder of Cash Management Services (CMS) collection agent Rajesh Kumar,who was shot dead in Ghumar Mandi in a broad daylight last Friday. While the police have arrested one of the four accused persons,one more accused surrendered in a local court today.

Briefing the media,SSP Dr Sukhchain Singh Gill said Rohit Mishra,a resident of Santokh Nagar in Shiv Puri area and Sanjay Dass,who worked with a private bank as an agent are in police net.

SSP Gill said two more accused in this case — Saurabh Dubey and Amit Arora-were absconding. He added the four had hatched the conspiracy to loot money from Rajesh Kumar. “Sanjay Dass and Saurabh Dubey had gone to snatch the money and had shot at Rajesh Kumar. “The motorcycle which was used to commission the crime has also been found but the weapon is yet to be recovered,” SSP Gill added.