Ludhiana, August 19: Sixteen days after Rajwinder Singh (45) had murdered his cousin Gurvinder Kaur (52), her maternal grandson Hitik Bassi (6) and granddaughter Mandeep Kaur (8) at their residence in Kishore Nagar, the Ludhiana police on Sunday nabbed him from Sangrur.
He was staying in Himmat Singh dharmashala (inn) near the bus stand in Sangrur for the past three days.
Addressing a press conference on Sunday, Police Commissioner Sukhchain Singh Gill and DCP (crime) Gagan Ajit Singh said the real name of the accused was Ravinder Singh Bakhshi, son of Jaswant Singh. He had changed his name to Rajwinder Singh, son of Ajit Singh, after he was booked in a dowry harassment case by the Amritsar police and was declared a PO in the same case in 2009.
He had solemnised his first marriage in 1997 which broke down due to dowry harassment case against him in 2000.
Later, he married an Amritsar-based girl, who also left him in 2006 when she came to know about his first marriage.
“The only reason behind committing three murders was that his second marriage broke down due to Gurvinder Kaur’s husband, who had told the accused’s second wife about his first marriage. He had been hatching a murder conspiracy for the past two years. He had bought hammer, paper cutter, a piece of cloth, electricity cable and chilli powder to kill Gurvinder and her husband, but couldn’t get a chance. On August 3, when he found Gurvinder alone at home he first hit her head with a hammer on the first floor. He then tied her hands and took her to a room on the ground floor, where he again hammered her head,” the police said. Later, he killed the children too when they came from school.
“He waited for Davinder, but when he did not come for 20 minutes he locked the house and fled,” said the DCP.
He didn’t want to kill the children, but when they saw the blood in the house, he murdered them to eliminate witnesses.
Source Tribune India
