After 8 years on the run, man held for journo's murder

MOHALI: After an eight-year-hunt, Mohali constabulary person arrested Gaurav Kumar, wanted for the treble execution of elder writer KJ Singh and his mother, Gurcharan Kaur. Kumar was arrested successful Noida Thursday. Kumar often changed cities and jobs to debar detection and had managed to physique a caller individuality for himself, accidental police. His employers were stunned to larn that helium was an absconder successful a high-profile execution case. The "model worker" had been promoted from information defender to manager astatine a operation steadfast successful the past fewer years and had married. But constabulary stayed connected his trail. The pursuit turned into a sprint successful the past 10 days erstwhile tips from elders successful his colony turned the acold way hot.

Kumar was taken wholly by astonishment erstwhile a squad from Mohali police's "Proclaimed Offenders Staff" surrounded him. He has been brought to Mohali and volition beryllium produced successful court. The Singhs were recovered murdered astatine their location successful Mohali during the intervening nighttime of September 22-23, 2017. The killings sent shockwaves crossed Punjab. SSP Harmandeep Singh Hans said sustained surveillance and quality inputs yet led to the accused.

"The motive of execution was spontaneous. KJ Singh saw this antheral sitting adjacent the bound partition of his location and asked him to spell away. The different antheral got offended and entered his location to termination him and his mother," Hans said. Police identified Kumar arsenic the fishy and registered a lawsuit astatine Mataur constabulary presumption connected September 23, 2017. But Kumar was obscurity to beryllium found. He was declared a proclaimed offender successful 2022. DSP Naveen Pal Singh said that erstwhile the lawsuit was handed to him, helium and his squad began "connecting evidence" and went to Kumar's autochthonal village. With the assistance of sarpanches and panches, constabulary traced him to Noida, wherever helium was caught. Singh said, "He was traced to a operation tract successful Noida. He joined the steadfast arsenic a information defender and was elevated to supervisor earlier being made manager of the project. According to his employer, his behaviour was precise good.

.. They were shocked to cognize that helium is simply a double-murder accused."