A 30-year-old NRI was allegedly killed by her in-laws in Punjab’s Kapurthala city last week in a property dispute case. The victim, identified as Rajdeep Kaur, had been living in the US for the last seven years. However, she was called to India by her in-laws on the pretext of attending a wedding.
Police have now registered a case against the victim’s in-laws Jasdev Singh, Baljit Kaur and husband Manjinder Singh under Sections of 302 (murder), 120-b (criminal conspiracy) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Pena Code (IPC).
Police said the husband of the victim is living in the US illegally and is reportedly involved in the conspiracy of Kaur’s murder and has been charged. Nirmal Kaur said that her daughter was continuously subjected to torture by her husband after she refused to transfer all her property into his name for immigration purposes. “My daughter was called to India based on a lie about a wedding. It was a plan to kill her,” she alleged . It is believed the woman was murdered as she had hefty life insurance coverage,” said Babandeep Singh, DSP of Sultanpur Lodhi. The family allegedly put the dead body of the victim in a freezer for two days before informing the police.
