Ludhiana: The police on Friday arrested a woman financier and her accomplice for culpable homicide after her 24-year-old employee died a day before. The financier’s son, who too has been booked, is on the run. The kin of the victim alleged that the accused murdered him by injecting him with poison.
The deceased has been identified as Parkash Singh, of Daba. The accused are: Reeta Rani of Azad Nagar, her son Ajay Kumar and her aide Poonam of Friends Colony, Jassiyan Road.
Parkash’s father Lakhvir Singh, 52, of New Satguru Nagar, said in his police complaint, “Parkash had been working with Reeta for the past few years. He lived in a room at her house. Parkash was earlier a drug addict. He wanted to leave the job, but Reeta was not letting him quit and harassing him.”
Ludhiana: A man thrashed his tenant to death in Gagan Nagar of Daba in the early hours of Friday. The accused allegedly suspected the victim of stealing Rs 1,000 and they also had a fight on Thursday night. The area residents had intervened and pacified them. Later, the accused attacked the victim with a stick, killing him.
The deceased has been identified as Vijay Morya, 30, a labourer. He hailed from Uttar Pradesh and had been living in Ludhiana in a rented accommodation owned by accused Gabbar Singh, 50, for the past two years.
According to the locality residents, Gabbar and Vijay used to live together and on Thursday night, people gathered outside their house on hearing them quarrel. Gabbar was accusing Vijay of stealing Rs 1,000 while the latter was refuting the allegation. People pacified Gabbar and went to sleep.
Ludhiana: Even as the police claimed to have increased security and patrolling ahead of the Republic Day, four miscreants attacked and robbed a 35-year-old man in Daba on Saturday night.
The victim has been identified as Manoj Kumar, a resident of Jaswinder Colony, near Bapu Market, Daba. Manoj works as a supervisor in a cycle parts manufacturing company near Bhagwan Chowk.
Manoj said in his police complaint, “I travel to my workplace and back home by an auto-rickshaw. On Saturday night, I got late finishing work. Around 11pm, I alighted from an auto near Lohara main road and started walking towards my house.”