Moga SSP Inderbir Singh said, ”If the husband (Gurjit Singh from Canada) is involved in hiring killers to eliminate Harpreet Kaur, we will make efforts to get him extradited and arrest him.”
MOGA – An Indo-Canadian man has been charged in Punjab for trying to have his wife killed.
Gurjit Singh, the husband of Harpreet Kaur, who was shot at in a Moga village on Monday by two unidentified assailants, has been booked by the local police on charges of attempt to murder his wife.
The plot allegedly hatched by a Gurjit to eliminate his wife with the kelp of contract killers failed when Harpreet Kaur, a government schoolteacher in Raunta, escaped the bid on her life on Monday afternoon.
She was seriously injured when two men on a motorcycle waylaid her vehicle when she was returning from school and fired at her twice.
A case of attempt to murder has been registered against the bikers, while the woman’s husband, Gurjit Singh, has been charged with hatching the conspiracy.
Gurjit is settled in Canada.
A few unidentified gunmen fired shots at and injured Harpreet when she was going to her home in Ludhiana on a car on Monday. She is working at Government High School at Raonta village in Nihalsinghwala sub-division of Moga district.
She received two gun shots — one in her right eye and another in the right leg. She is undergoing treatment at the DMC hospital in Ludhiana.
Harvinder Singh, SHO, Nihalsinghwala police station, said a criminal case has been registered on the basis of the statement of the injured woman.
“She has stated that her husband, who lives in Canada, does not want to take her with him, while she insisted on going. He hired the killers to eliminate her,” the SHO said.
Preliminary findings revealed that Harpreet was married to Gurjit Singh, who hails from Raonta village and settled in Canada. Harpreet has claimed that after returning to Canada, she discovered that her husband had married another woman and now wanted her out of his life, the SHO said.
“We have searched the residence of Harpreet’s in-laws at their village, but found no one as the entire family lives in Canada. We are searching for the youths hired by Gurjit who fired at Harpreet,” he added.
The NRI’s wife told police that her husband had probably hired contract killers to get her out of his way.
His decision not to take Harpreet to Canada once they had tied the knot led to their relations getting soured and Harpreet began living with her relatives in Ludhiana. She used to commute to the school in her Toyota Innova from Ludhiana every day.
Sitting at her daughter’s bedside at a hospital in Ludhiana, Harpreet’s mother Baljit Kaur said, “We never thought our son-in-law would act this way, we suspect he may have married again.”
Harpreet’s colleagues said she was feeling let-down by her husband’s behaviour, and they were not on good terms.
Moga SSP Inderbir Singh said, ”If the husband is involved in hiring killers to eliminate Harpreet, we will make efforts to get him extradited and arrest him.”
