Ludhiana: 71-yr-old US citizen killed & body dumped in drain

A 71-year-old US citizen of Indian origin was bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat and her body burnt before being dumped in a drain here allegedly at the behest of a UK-based NRI man whom she was to marry, a police investigation has revealed.

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The victim, Rupinder Kaur Pandher, came to India from Seattle at the invitation of Charanjit Singh Grewal, an England-based Non-Resident Indian (NRI) originally from Ludhiana, who was to be her bridegroom but later refused to marry her. She was killed in July, police said.

A police official said some of the woman's skeletal remains have been recovered from the drain.

Police have arrested Sukhjeet Singh, a typist in the Ludhiana court and a resident of Kila Raipur in Ludhiana Patti, for killing the woman.