Blitz Bureau
The Punjab Police on August 25 revealed that the firing incident in which a visiting Non-Resident Indian (NRI) from the US was critically wounded at his palatial farmhouse on the outskirts of Amritsar, was a plot hatched by the victim’s ex-wife’s family, also based in America, by hiring local miscreants.
Five people, including the father of the victim’s ex-wife, have been arrested. The motive of the crime was strained relations between the NRI families.
The grievously wounded NRI was stated to be out of danger. Commissioner of Police Ranjit Singh Dhillon told the media here that four members of a family, belonging to the victim’s previous wife’s family, settled in the US allegedly hired the killers by offering them a ‘supari’ to kill the visiting NRI, Sukhchain Singh.
Besides the victim’s previous father-in-law, who is based in Punjab’s Hoshiarpur district, the police also arrested a manager of the hotel located in Amritsar for giving lodging to the assailants before and after the crime. The police also traced the trail of money transferred after the crime.
Two motorcycle-borne assailants barged into the house of 43-year-old NRI, Sukhchain Singh, in Daburji village and shot at him on August 24 morning in front of his elderly mother, wife and two children from his previous wife, leaving him grievously wounded.
