2 months after Payal murder,husband and his kin arrested

Vinod’s mother Sarbati,brother Pardeep and father Jaipal,who are accused in the murder,are still absconding. All of them have been charged under Section 302( for murder),201( causing disappearance of evidence),120-B (criminal conspiracy),406 (criminal breach of trust) and 498-A (subjecting woman to cruelty) of the Indian Penal Code(IPC). It is alleged that they killed Payal by strangulation and then dumped her body in a water tanker.

The judge sent both Vinod and Jaswant to five-day police custody. A petition filed by the parents of Payal for the arrest of the accused and speedy investigation was also dismissed in the Punjab and Haryana High Court today.

Payal was found dead in a water tanker at her in-laws’ place at house number 1126,Sector 26,here on November 19,2010. At that time,the police were informed that it was a suicide and both the parents and in-laws’ of Payal requested the police not to conduct a post-mortem. Nevertheless,the police got it done.

On November 21,2010,Hanuman Prasad,father of Payal,filed a complaint of murder. The police had sent samples of Payal’s viscera to Karnal,Madhuban and Rohtak for examination,which consumed time in the case. When the reports came last week,confirming that Payal had been murdered,doctors’ opinion was also sought by the police.

“A board of doctors consisting of Dr Monica,Dr Anjal and Dr Gambhir have ruled that she died of asphyxiation. The other accused in the case will soon be arrested ,” said Chandimandir police station SHO Inspector Jangsher Singh.