A sessions court in Bathinda on Tuesday deferred the trial in the murder case of digital content creator Kanchan Kumari, alias Kanchan Bhabhi, to November after witnesses failed to appear.
Police investigation found that five men were involved in the crime, but only four—Mehron, Jaspreet, Nimratjit and Ranjit—have been identified so far. Jaspreet and Nimratjit were arrested the very next day. Mehron, the alleged mastermind, was deported, while his associate Ranjit was arrested subsequently.
It was the first hearing after the district court framed charges last month against the alleged mastermind and hardliner Amritpal Singh Mehron, 30. The sessions court will next hear the matter on November 19.
The accused’s counsel, Manpreet Singh Brar, said that the deceased’s mother and complainant, Girja Devi, and her son Naresh Kumar did not appear in court. Kanchan was strangled on June 10 last year over what Mehron and his co-accused considered “immoral content” that hurt Sikh sentiments, according to the police.
Meanwhile, Mehron was produced before a Moga district court on Tuesday in a separate criminal case registered against him in 2024 for allegedly glorifying violence on social media platforms.
