Days after a Kurukshetra man, Gurpreet Singh, was allegedly killed in a road rage, the Kurukshetra police on Monday arrested three men accused of the murder with the support from the Nepal, Bhutan and West Bengal police.
Sharing details, crime investigation agency CIA-2 in-charge, inspector Mandeep Singh said, the police received a tip-off that the accused in the murder of Gurpreet Singh were planning to flee abroad via Nepal. The CIA-2 team also arrested three men for concealing, aiding, and assisting the main accused in their escape,” he said. In his statement to the police on September 15, Gagandeep Singh, a resident of Pehowa stated that at around 8:30 am a day before, he along with his friend Abhishek were in their Innova car, when Gurpreet Singh, also joined them. As they began driving from Pehowa Chowk towards the market, a vehicle with number HR 41 BB 8792, pulled in front of them and began cutting them off, preventing them from proceeding. He was admitted to Lok Nayak Jai Prakash (LNJP) Civil Hospital, Kurukshetra and was given treatment, but later succumbed to injuries on September 19.
However, their identities were not revealed. The accused were identified as Karan Pandit and Jashandeep Singh, both residents of Pehowa town in Kurukshetra and Ashish Kumar from Jind. “A communication channel was established with the police in Nepal, Bhutan, and West Bengal. Following a face-off between both the groups near a hotel, Pandit allegedly attacked Gurpreet with a sword, intending to kill him and then repeatedly attacked him on the head with the sword, and his companion also attacked them with sticks. The blockade was lifted after nearly seven hours following an assurance from DSP Randhir Singh about the arrest.
Police said that the accused were being brought to Kurukshetra and will be presented before a court and taken into remand. It also said, three other men were also arrested, from the spot, for aiding them to leave the country. Singh said that the crime was a fallout of an argument between the both groups over not giving way to the vehicle of the accused.
Following a relentless pursuit, a joint team of Kurukshetra and West Bengal Police, with the assistance of Nepal and Bhutan police, arrested three men on Monday. On Sunday, the family blocked a major road in Pehowa town with Singh’s body, to protest against the police inaction.
