Sirsa triple murder case: Husband’s girlfriend held

The Haryana police on Friday arrested a Sirsa based woman, Meenu (25), on charges of hatching a criminal conspiracy with her paramour Malkiyat Singh to kill his wife and children. However, they are yet to certain whether Malkiyat's wife Amarjit Kaur had committed suicide after killing her two children - Navdeep Kaur (18 months) and Sehaj Singh (six months) - or if the three were murdered.

Meenu, a divorcee with a five-year-old son, Malkiyat had an illicit affair due to which there used to be frequent altercations between Amarjit and her husband.

"We are still probing whether it was a murder or Amarjit killed the children and committed suicide. Malkiyat is the prime accused and he claims he was with Meenu when the incident took place," Inspector Jagdish Rai, the investigating officer of the case, said.

"The post mortem report revealed that all three died of burn injuries. It is possible that the woman poured diesel in the house and then set it on fire, which killed her and the children," Rai added.

Meanwhile, Malkiyat was produced in the court today and remanded to police custody for a day. Malkiyat and Meenu, besides Malkiyat's brother and father were booked on charges of murder and criminal conspiracy, on the complaint of Amarjit's brother Randhir Singh.

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