Police clueless in double murder case

PK Jaiswar

Tribune News Service 

Amritsar, December 3 

Even though 24 hours had lapsed, the police were clueless about the brutal double murder in which a kin of the Radha Soami sect follower was found murdered along with her maid at the former’s residence in the plush Maqbool road here yesterday. 

The police was busy making security arrangements for VVIPs and foreign delegates arriving in the city to participate in the Heart of Asia Conference. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani also arrived in the evening. Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif’s foreign policy advisor Sartaz Aziz is also arriving to attend the programme.

Deputy Commissioner of Police Gagan Ajit Singh said there had been no breakthrough in the case so far while the forensic team also failed to find any clue. “One thing is for sure, that the accused had done a recce of the house and some insider was involved in the murder,” he said. 

The accused knew that the two women lived alone and that there was no watchman present at the house. The police found jewellery worth lakhs besides cash missing from the house. Assistant Commissioner of Police (North) Dr BK Singla, who was part of the investigating team, said the exact loss could not be ascertained as nobody knew the amount of cash and jewellery in the room. 

The suspects entered the house by breaking the glass windowpane of the bedroom where the two were sleeping. There was no other sign of forced entry or scuffle in the room. The deceased’s throats had been slit by unidentified robbers. 

Questions arise over law & order situation in city

The two murders in three days and firing incidents have raised a question mark on the law and order situation in the city, that too when a large number of policemen and paramilitary forces were camping there  in view of the security arrangements for the ongoing Heart of Asia conference.