FAMILY ALLEGES POLICE PROTECTING OFFICER'S SON
Jalandhar May 11:
The family of a student of Thapar Institute of Engineering, who was allegedly murdered by three of his classmates, wanted the case to be handed over to the CBI as the Patiala police led by its SSP were allegedly shielding the accused and destroying the evidence.
They said the police was doing this to save the son of an IAS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre, who was among the accused. Inderjit Kaur, mother of Tarunvir Khurana, who was allegedly murdered on the night of August 24, while addressing a press conference, alleged that first the police delayed the registering of the case after the recovery of the body of her son from a canal.
When the case was registered after two days it was done under Sections 365 and 120-B of the IPC. It was only after consistent pressure of the family that the police included Section 302 of the IPC. Tarunvir's father Gurdev Singh is chief accounts officer of the rail coach factory, Kapurthala.
She said the police were trying to prove that the car in which the four were travelling met with an accident on the bridge of the Bhakra-Narwana branch near Ganda Kheri village on the Rajpura-Patiala road and only Tarunvir fell into the canal. However, an eyewitness who had broken open the doors of the car to take out the injured students, said there were only three students in it.
Moreover, the postmortem had revealed that the body of the deceased had injury marks on it. She alleged that police deliberately did not arrest the accused and allowed them to flee after being discharged from the hospital. She asked the chief minister to order a CBI probe into the case. Till then the investigation of the case be handed over to the police of some other district, she added.
Jalandhar May 11:
The family of a student of Thapar Institute of Engineering, who was allegedly murdered by three of his classmates, wanted the case to be handed over to the CBI as the Patiala police led by its SSP were allegedly shielding the accused and destroying the evidence.
They said the police was doing this to save the son of an IAS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre, who was among the accused. Inderjit Kaur, mother of Tarunvir Khurana, who was allegedly murdered on the night of August 24, while addressing a press conference, alleged that first the police delayed the registering of the case after the recovery of the body of her son from a canal.
When the case was registered after two days it was done under Sections 365 and 120-B of the IPC. It was only after consistent pressure of the family that the police included Section 302 of the IPC. Tarunvir's father Gurdev Singh is chief accounts officer of the rail coach factory, Kapurthala.
She said the police were trying to prove that the car in which the four were travelling met with an accident on the bridge of the Bhakra-Narwana branch near Ganda Kheri village on the Rajpura-Patiala road and only Tarunvir fell into the canal. However, an eyewitness who had broken open the doors of the car to take out the injured students, said there were only three students in it.
Moreover, the postmortem had revealed that the body of the deceased had injury marks on it. She alleged that police deliberately did not arrest the accused and allowed them to flee after being discharged from the hospital. She asked the chief minister to order a CBI probe into the case. Till then the investigation of the case be handed over to the police of some other district, she added.
