In another case of lovelorn youths bumping off lovers after being jilted in love, police have arrested a man, named Ashish, aged around 35, from Mussoorie on Saturday evening on the charge of hacking to death his girl friend in the tea estate area of Premangar on Friday night.
The murdered Gurprit Kaur was a married woman, mother of a five-year old child, also veering on 30, police said.
Stricken by remorse following the crime, the youth later sought to cut his veins in a bid to commit suicide while staying in a hotel in Mussoorie. However, police reached on time and took him to Doon Hospital. He is stable now.
Police said they have not pressed him much till now, given his condition. However, the accused is learnt to have confessed his crime.
“He was admitted at Doon Hospital on Saturday evening and he is reported to be out of danger,” said Mussoorie police station officer. Sources said that Ashish had got enraged as the murdered woman had been running relation with some other friends of hers.
Police said both Ashish and Gurprit Kaur had been found wandering around the tea estate in Premnagar. Kaur had reached the place on her scooty while Ashish, on his bike. “Maybe, the murder was pre-meditated as the place where the crime was committed was far away from their homes. Interestingly, both had taken selfies before Ashish had knifed her to death. He had left the place on his bike after the crime was committed and later he had left his vehicle in front of one of his friends’ houses at Raipur.
Police said that Kaur was acquainted with Ashish when she was living in his home on rent. After the relation between them developed, Kaur’s husband had left the house and took another also on rent on Race Course. Her husband is now doing business in Chandigarh. Police had contacted him on Friday night in Chandigarh. He reached Dehradun on Saturday.
Police had been informed on Friday night that a body had been lying in pool of blood. Senior police officers- SSP Dr Sadanand Date, SP City Ajay Singh and others- rushed to the spot and the body was sent for postmortem. Police had circulated her photograph on what’s app on Friday and later in the night, the body was identified as that of Guruprit Kaur, resident of Race Course. Police have sealed the area on Friday night. The same night, police had also arrested Ashish’s friends and his brother. later, Ashish was arrested from a hotel in Mussoorie on Saturday evening.