Punjab influencer homicide: Key accused fled to UAE hours after homicide, says police

Bhatinda Senior Superintendent of Police Amneet Kondal stated police had already issued a lookout round towards Mehron, a resident of Moga.

Mehron is a self-styled Sikh radical chief. He can be accused of issuing threats to no less than two different Punjab-based girl social media influencers.

The police stated they’ve additionally blocked a few of his social media handles.

“Different police teams were already looking for Amritpal by conducting raids. On Saturday, we issued a lookout circular. When we got his passport details and checked his travel records and found that he had fled to the UAE after taking a flight from Amritsar in the evening, just hours after the murder was committed in Bathinda,” Kondal advised reporters in Bathinda.

“We will tie-up with other authorities/agencies and we will follow due procedure for his deportation. We have informed the authorities that Mehron is wanted in murder case,” she stated.

On June 13, two accused Jaspreet Singh of Moga and Nimratjit Singh from Tarn Taran had been arrested in reference to the homicide of Kanchan Kumari, who was discovered lifeless in an deserted automobile in a parking zone in Bathinda.

Kanchan Kumari was murdered on June 9.

Further investigations and questioning of the 2 arrested accused has revealed that two extra accused are concerned within the homicide conspiracy.

SSP Kondal stated these two are Mehron’s associates and one in all them has been recognized as Ranjit Singh. Both have been nominated within the already registered FIR, she stated, including that efforts are on to nab them.

The 30-year-old influencer, recognized on Instagram as ‘Kamal Kaur Bhabhi’ with 384,000 followers, additionally operated a YouTube channel referred to as ‘Funny Bhabhi TV’, which had 2,36,000 subscribers.

Kanchan, a resident of Lachman colony in Ludhiana, was strangled to dying, the SSP stated.

Immediately after their arrest, the 2 arrested males had stated they killed Kanchan for importing “immoral and vulgar content that hurt the community’s sentiments”.

After the alleged homicide, a video had surfaced on the web the place Mehron claimed that Kanchan was killed resulting from her “immoral and vulgar content” on social media and two of his accomplices have been arrested in reference to the case.

In his video, Mehron additionally warned different influencers creating “objectionable content” to chorus from such actions. Targeting one other Punjab-based influencer, he stated it’s “not necessary that a body will be found every time”, as he not directly referred to Kanchan’s physique being left in her automobile.

Highlighting that it was a premeditated crime, SSP Kondal stated throughout investigations and questioning of the 2 arrested accused, it got here to mild that Mehron had deliberate the homicide three months in the past.

Mehron together with Jaspreet and Nimratjit had even travelled to Ludhiana, staying in close by lodges at instances, and monitoring the actions, life-style and automobile utilized by Kanchan.

The SSP once more detailed how Mehron had allegedly approached Kanchan the earlier week on the pretext of a automobile promotion occasion in Bathinda.

On June 9, she left Ludhiana home, informing her mom that she was going to a promotional occasion. However, her household misplaced contact along with her afterwards.

Mehron, Jaspreet and Nimratjit reached Ludhiana from Moga the identical day and so they contacted Kanchan and referred to as her to a spot in Ludhiana, the SSP stated on Sunday.

After she arrived on the location Mehron sat in her automobile’s backseat, whereas the opposite two travelled of their automobile. They had promised Kanchan to restore her automobile in a storage in Bathinda. On reaching Bathinda, Mehron, in a pre-planned conspiracy, shifted to his SUV and Nimratjit together with Kanchan went to the storage, the officer stated.

Mehron parked his SUV close to a petroleum pump and later began driving Kanchan’s car and all of them sat inside. At one level, they snatched her two cell phones and Nimratjit and Jaspreet, each sitting at again seats, strangulated her to dying.

Later, Mehron left in Ranjit’s automobile with one other unknown accused whereas Jaspreet and Nimratjit took Kanchan’s automobile alongside along with her physique to Adesh college and deserted it there, they stated.

When they realised that the piece of material used to strangulate Kanchan had been left behind, they went there once more to get better it.

Her physique was found when locals knowledgeable the police a few foul odor emanating from a automobile within the parking space close to Adesh University.

The physique was delivered to the civil hospital mortuary and her mom confirmed the identification the subsequent day.

A homicide case was registered following a criticism registered by her mom, Girja Devi, the SSP stated.

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