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Woman, paramour murder her husband in Ludhiana, try to pass it off as cardiac arrest

Ludhiana News: The woman had mixed intoxicants in the tea of her husband and when he lost consciousness, Hardeep strangled him to death.

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Updated Sep 11, 2022, 07:50 IST

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Ludhiana: A woman, reportedly the mother of two children, and her paramour were arrested for allegedly strangling her husband to death early on Wednesday in Hathur of Punjab’s Ludhiana district and trying to pass it off as death due to cardiac arrest, said an official of Saturday.

The Hathur police of Ludhiana rural was investigating the incident and found that the man, identified as Inderjit Singh (38) of Jhordan village, who was a priest in a gurdwara, was murdered, reported The Indian Express.

The arrested have been identified as his wife Kirandeep Kaur and her paramour Hardeep Singh of Abdullapur Chuhane Kalan village. Hardeep Singh was also a cousin of the victim. The duo has confessed to their crime during interrogation.

The woman had mixed intoxicants in the tea of her husband and when he lost consciousness, Hardeep strangled him to death, police said.

The woman had switched off the CCTV cameras installed in the house before committing the crime.

Balvir Kaur, the mother of the victim has filed an FIR. The victim’s mother told the police that Inderjit came home late on Tuesday after attending a religious event.

On Wednesday morning, she had gone to the gurdwara to pray and when she returned at around 8 am, she was shocked to see Inderjit lying dead and Kirandeep crying, the victim’s mother said as reported by The Indian Express.

She told police that though Kirandeep said he suffered a cardiac arrest, there was no visible injury mark on the body. Therefore, she did not lodge any police complaint.

However, the post-mortem report suggested that the man was strangled to death and police zeroed in on his wife, informed Sub-Inspector Hardeep Singh, SHO of Hathur police station.

During the investigation, police found that CCTVs installed in the house remained switched off between 11.30 pm and 2.30 am. Following this, police detained Kirandeep for questioning and she confessed to the crime, said the SHO.

“During the questioning, she said that her husband had come to know of her affair and so they plotted the crime,” the SHO said as reported by PTI.

The victim had a 10-year-old daughter and a 5-year-old son.

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