A man, who confessed of killing two women over the last 10 years on live TV, was arrested by Chandigarh Police on mid-show from a news channel studio on Tuesday evening.
In a dramatic turn of events, 31-year old Maninder Singh, an accused of killing his woman friend at a Chandigarh’s hotel on January 1, appeared in the office of a local TV channel and confessed to the crime on live television.
He confessed killing 27-year old Sarabjeet Kaur, a nurse as he suspected she was in a relationship with someone else.
Sarabjeet’s body was found in a room at Hotel Sky in the Industrial Area, Phase II here on January 1. A case of murder was registered at the Sector 31 police station.
She had checked into the hotel with Maninder Singh, who was out on bail after conviction in another murder case in Karnal in 2010.
After the murder on January 1, Maninder Singh was absconding for the past two weeks and had reached the office of the local news channel, hardly 50 metres from the hotel where the crime took place, and confessed on camera. Maninder was booked under Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code.
As soon as police got the information, they rushed to the office of news channel in the Industrial Area here and arrested Maninder Singh while the programme was still being telecast from the TV studio.Maninder Singh, a former murder convict and currently out on bail, also confessed about his crime committed in Karnal in 2010.
Before his arrest, Maninder told the news channel that he killed Sarabjit Kaur because she was having an affair with her sister-in-law's brother.
Maninder used to work as a driver at a factory in the Industrial Area, Phase 1, till about three months back.Notably, Sarabjit, a resident of Kakra village in Sangrur district, was found lying on the bed with her throat slit, at Hotel Sky on the afternoon of January 1. She had checked into the hotel with Maninder on December 30.
He had left the hotel a few hours later after checking in and was absconding since then.Confessing his previous crime, Maninder told the news channel that he had also killed Renu in Karnal. She was also having an affair with a man from Uttar Pradesh, he had said.
Haryana Police had arrested Maninder for killing a woman, with whom he had a relationship, in Karnal back in 2010.
He was convicted by a trial court, but he later got bail from the Punjab and Haryana High Court. Police said that after committing the crime on January 1, Maninder had been on the move, staying in various places including Ludhiana, Patiala, Jalandhar among others to avert arrest.