Chandigarh: Sector 22 double murder charges framed against retired cop's son

CHANDIGARH: Accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and her elder sister in Sector 22 on August 15 after breaking into their house, retired sub-inspector’s son Kuldeep Singh (30) was charge-sheeted under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code on Monday. The case has 32 witnesses.


The charge sheet claims that he pushed the sisters—Manpreet Kaur (21) and Rajwant Kaur (25)—against the wall and the floor, choked them, and stabbed them repeatedly with a pair of scissors.

Finding them still alive, he strangulated them with a dupatta.

Police say that around 4am, he sneaked into the house from rooftop for prying on Manpreet’s mobile phone and killed the sisters when caught red handed and confronted. He stole that handset and a travel bag from the house and reached Delhi to find someone to unlock the device, but he was arrested at the capital’s railway station. Manpreet had broken her engagement with him and he suspected her of having made another boyfriend.

The sisters were from Abohar in Punjab and lived in that rented house for five years. They aspired to start a business of supplying chemicals to a factory in Derabassi. Kuldeep Singh, who is from Shivalik Vihar in Zirakpur, had a nine-year relationship with Manpreet Kaur, which she had ended about seven months before the double murder. To check if she was dating another man, Kuldeep was struggling to crack her mobile-phone password to read her call log and messages when the sisters woke up. A heated argument spun out of control, into a ghastly crime.

The two victims resisted during the scuffle. The marks of their struggle were visible on the hands of the accused. Hearing the commotion, Shashi Bala, who resides on the first floor of the house, reached the top floor and found the door open. Kuldeep assured her that everything was fine but Shashi Bala says that she, later, saw him fleeing the house with a bag.

The accused took away mobile phones of the two sisters and locked their room from outside. He reached his home and celebrated Raksha Bandhan with his sister. Later, he packed his clothes, reached the Ambala railway station by bus and took a train to Delhi.