Kharar influencer burnt alive: Month on, police groping in dark
Chandigarh, Oct. 5 -- Even as it has been over a month since Punjabi influencer Manjeet Kaur died after she was abducted and burnt alive, police have yet to make any headway in arresting the main accused, Rinku, who was allegedly known to the victim and had called her to Chandigarh's Sector 34 on July 3 before allegedly abducting her.
While police had arrested Rinku's friend Parminder Singh, alias Pinda, of Kapurthala on September 9, Rinku has been evading arrest. Police have been conducting raids in Moga district and are also searching for Rinku's father, who works as an agriculturalist there. They have set up wiretaps on Rinku's mobile phone as well but he hasn't use the device since.
Meanwhile, officials privy to the probe said they had received some new leads and were examining them to catch the accused. Police are also working on the theory that the influencer was set on fire in the forest area of Sector 34 itself.
Manjeet Kaur, 28, was allegedly abducted from Chandigarh and set on fire in Morinda. Following a complaint by the victim's mother, the Chandigarh Police had registered a case of kidnapping and murder against two suspects, Pinda and another accused Shubhi.
However, police are also checking whether the accused Shubhi was present during the incident as Pinda's disclosure statement had allegedly ruled out his presence at the time of the crime.
According to the complaint filed by her mother, Kanta Devi, two acquaintances-identified as Shubhi and Pinda-called Manjeet late on the night of July 3 to meet near a liquor shop in Sector 34. Upon her arrival, the suspects forcibly pushed her into a car and drove her to Morinda. There, she was assaulted, tied to a mulberry tree, and set on fire.
An acquaintance who spotted her engulfed in flames doused the fire using a blanket and rushed her to a local hospital in Morinda. Due to her critical condition, she was moved to a hospital in Mohali before being referred to PGIMER, Chandigarh, on July 9.
Manjeet briefly regained consciousness on August 5, when she recounted the entire ordeal to her family. But succumbed to her severe burn injuries on August 26....
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