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Namdhari sect ex-chief’s widow shot dead in Punjab

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mata chandLudhiana : The widow of a former head of the Namdhari sect was shot dead by two unidentified assailants at a gurdwara complex near Ludhiana on Monday, police said.

Chand Kaur Namdhari, 88, was fired at from close range by two motorcycle-borne assailants at Gurdwara Bhaini Sahib, the headquarters of the sect.

One bullet hit her near her ear and another in the stomach, Bhaini Sahib spokesman Lakhvir Singh said.

The assailants, whom eyewitnesses described to police as turbaned Sikhs, fled the spot as Kaur lay in a pool of blood.

Kaur, the widow of former Namdhari sect chief Jagjit Singh and an aunt of present Namdhari sect chief Uday Singh, was rushed in a critical condition to the Apollo hospital where doctors tried to save her but in vain. She was later pronounced dead.

The police launched a manhunt to nab the assailants after registering a murder case.

“We are investigating. Police teams have been constituted to nab the assailants,” a senior Ludhiana police officer told the media.

Meanwhile, a large number of sect followers gathered outside the gurdwara on hearing about the fatal attack on Kaur.

She was visiting the Bhaini Sahib gurdwara near here for a function when she was shot.

“The assailants fired shots from a revolver from close range and fled. Two bullets hit her,” a police official investigating the crime said.

Chand Kaur had appointed Uday Singh as the sect head in 2012 after the death of her husband, ignoring opposition from his elder brother Dalip Singh.

She had refused to take security despite threats to the sect leadership in recent years and a couple of attacks on its top leaders.

The Namdharis are a sect of the Sikh religion but follow their own tenets. Namdhari Sikhs are conspicuous by their white robes as well as white turbans tied in a distinct style

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What monkey fled with a bag containing evidence in it: Read full story

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The court, generally, considers a person who commit a crime and the one who destroys the evidence, as criminals in the eyes of law. But what if an animal destroys the evidence of a crime committed by a human.

In a peculiar incident in Rajasthan, a monkey fled away with the evidence collected by the police in a murder case. The stolen evidence included the murder weapon (a blood-stained knife).

The incident came to light when the police appeared before the court and they had to provide the evidence in the hearing.

The hearing was about the crime which took place in September 2016, in which a person named Shashikant Sharma died at a primary health center under Chandwaji police station. After the body was found, the deceased’s relatives blocked the Jaipur-Delhi highway, demanding an inquiry into the matter.

Following the investigation, the police had arrested Rahul Kandera and Mohanlal Kandera, residents of Chandwaji in relation to the murder. But, when the time came to produce the evidence related to the case, it was found that the police had no evidence with them because a monkey had stolen it from them.

In the court, the police said that the knife, which was the primary evidence, was also taken by the monkey. The cops informed that the evidence of the case was kept in a bag, which was being taken to the court.

The evidence bag contained the knife and 15 other important evidences. However, due to the lack of space in the malkhana, a bag full of evidence was kept under a tree, which led to the incident.

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