Tribune News Service
Patiala, October 22
With the arrest of a 40-year-old online mathematics teacher, the Patiala police claim to have solved two blind murders. Addressing the media today, SSP Harcharan Singh Bhullar said Navinderpritpal Singh, son of a retired Lieutenant Colonel, used nitrogen gas to kill his fianceacute;e and first wife within the gap of a month.
‘Under stress due to multiple marriages’
- Navinderpritpal Singh reportedly used nitrogen gas to kill both victims
- Scheduled to marry Chupinder Pal Kaur of Bathinda on Oct 20, he reportedly killed her on Oct 13
- “The accused said he was under stress due to multiple marriages,” the police said
Bhullar said the accused killed his fianceacute;e, Chupinder Pal Kaur of Bathinda, on October 13 — a week before their marriage. Chupinder had reached Patiala on October 11 for her pre-wedding shopping, but was reportedly killed two days later.
CIA incharge Shamminder Singh said the accused misled the police by concocting a story that Chupinder had fought with him and had left on October 14.
Shamminder claimed that it was a planned murder as the accused had already dug a pit in his bedroom to dispose of her body. “After killing her, the accused covered the pit with tiles and then put a carpet over it,” he said.
The police said the accused during interrogation revealed that he had followed the same modus operandi while killing his first wife, Sukhdeep Kaur of Sangrur district, on the intervening night of September 19 and 20.
They said the accused admitted that he killed her using nitrogen gas and convinced everyone that she had died of a heart attack. They had got married in 2018.
“The accused said he killed both women as he was under stress due to multiple marriages. He is in six-day police remand now,” the police said.
The CIA incharge said the accused had married a third woman in 2018 and was currently living with her at a rented accommodation in Patiala city. “The family members of the accused only knew about his first marriage. He never involved his family in any marriage-related ritual. His family has no idea that he was engaged to another woman until he was arrested,” he said.
The police said another woman had died by suicide outside the residence of the accused in 2014. “Now, we will investigate that case too,” the police added.
Month after wife’s murder, teacher held for killing fiancée
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