Even as it has been over a month since Punjabi influencer Manjeet Kaur died after she was abducted and burnt alive, police have yet to make any headway in arresting the main accused, Rinku, who was allegedly known to the victim and had called her to Chandigarh’s Sector 34 on July 3 before allegedly abducting her.
Police have been conducting raids in Moga district and are also searching for Rinku’s father, who works as an agriculturalist there. They have set up wiretaps on Rinku’s mobile phone as well but he hasn’t use the device since. A Central Forensic science Laboratory (CFSL) team had been asked to collect samples and police are currently looking for witnesses. Following a complaint by the victim’s mother, the Chandigarh Police had registered a case of kidnapping and murder against two suspects, Pinda and another accused Shubhi. However, police are also checking whether the accused Shubhi was present during the incident as Pinda’s disclosure statement had allegedly ruled out his presence at the time of the crime. Kaur was seven weeks pregnant at the time of her death.
alias Pinda, of Kapurthala on September 9, Rinku has been evading arrest While police had arrested Rinku’s friend Parminder Singh. Police are also working on the theory that the influencer was set on fire in the forest area of Sector 34 itself. Manjeet Kaur, 28, was allegedly abducted from Chandigarh and set on fire in Morinda. Following her death, the Sector 34 police station had registered an FIR under Sections 140(1) (kidnapping), 103(1) (murder), and 3(5) (joint criminal liability) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
Meanwhile, officials privy to the probe said they had received some new leads and were examining them to catch the accused. Kaur, a divorcee, had a seven-year-old son who lived with her former husband, according to police
