AMRITSAR: Stopped from keeping expensive carrier pigeons, a daily-wage labourer from Bule Nangal village near Beas allegedly tied his pregnant wife to a cot and burnt her to death.
Sukhdev Singh, who used to have frequent arguments with his wife, Pinki, 23, over his fad is now under arrest after police recovered her charred body.
On Friday evening, the villagers reported this murder to the sarpanch, who then alerted the cops.Beas station house officer (SHO) Gurwinder Singh has claimed that Sukhdev used to blow up his meagre income of a labourer on feeding his expensive habit of keeping carrier pigeons despite the objections of his wife.
Since the house is on the outskirts, it took the villagers a while to understand why smoke was rising from it. Whi le pregnant wife’s body was on fire but they took it for straw burning. Sukhdev and Pinki had married about two years and six months ago and she was six months pregnant. The SHO claimed that: “Police laid a trap, arrested Sukhdev Singh, and sent the body for autopsy.
Sukhdev Singh, who used to have frequent arguments with his wife, Pinki, 23, over his fad is now under arrest after police recovered her charred body.
On Friday evening, the villagers reported this murder to the sarpanch, who then alerted the cops.Beas station house officer (SHO) Gurwinder Singh has claimed that Sukhdev used to blow up his meagre income of a labourer on feeding his expensive habit of keeping carrier pigeons despite the objections of his wife.
Since the house is on the outskirts, it took the villagers a while to understand why smoke was rising from it. Whi le pregnant wife’s body was on fire but they took it for straw burning. Sukhdev and Pinki had married about two years and six months ago and she was six months pregnant. The SHO claimed that: “Police laid a trap, arrested Sukhdev Singh, and sent the body for autopsy.