₹50L, job to kin of naval officer killed in Pahalgam attack

The Haryana Council of Ministers approved ₹50 lakh and a government job to eligible family member of navy officer Lt Vinay Narwal who was killed during a terror attack in Pahalgam recently.

- HT Correspondent

JALANDHAR: A week after a history-sheeter, Harvinder Singh, 35, was arrested from Gujarat in connection with a 'suspected' double murder of a lawyer and his woman companion in Phagwara, the Kapurthala police are yet to recover the bodies.

The police, in a joint operation with the Gujarat police, had arrested Harvinder from a dhaba at Lakadia village, 52 km from Bhuj. He is the key suspect behind the kidnapping and murder of lawyer Sanjeev Kumar and his friend Anju Pal, who has been missing from Phagwara since April 19.

Phagwara's SP Rupinder Kaur said the investigation is on and the accused has been in their custody for nine days from May 2 onwards. "We are hopeful of cracking the case in a day or so. The accused keeps changing his statements and location, where he had possibly disposed of the bodies," SP said.

She added that several police have been formed to locate bodies at the spots as the accused confessed to destroying all the evidence in the case.

Harvinder, alias Pinder, was serving life imprisonment for the murder of then Moga deputy superintendent of police (DSP) Balraj Singh Gill and his woman friend Monika Kapila in a Ludhiana farmhouse in 2012. He was released on parole two months ago and was to report back to prison on April 23.