MOHALI: After an eight-year-hunt, Mohali police have arrested Gaurav Kumar, needed for the double homicide of senior journalist KJ Singh and his mom, Gurcharan Kaur. Kumar was arrested in Noida Thursday. Kumar often modified cities and jobs to keep away from detection and had managed to construct a brand new id for himself, say police. His employers have been surprised to be taught that he was an absconder in a high-profile homicide case. The “mannequin employee” had been promoted from safety guard to supervisor at a development agency in the previous couple of years and had married. However police stayed on his path. The chase changed into a dash within the final 10 days when ideas from elders in his village turned the chilly path scorching. Kumar was taken utterly without warning when a group from Mohali police's “Proclaimed Offenders Workers” surrounded him. He has been delivered to Mohali and can be produced in courtroom. The Singhs have been discovered murdered at their house in Mohali throughout the intervening evening of September 22-23, 2017. The killings despatched shockwaves throughout Punjab. SSP Harmandeep Singh Hans mentioned sustained surveillance and intelligence inputs lastly led to the accused. “The motive of homicide was spontaneous. KJ Singh noticed this man sitting close to the boundary wall of his home and requested him to go away. The opposite man received offended and entered his home to kill him and his mom,” Hans mentioned. Police recognized Kumar because the suspect and registered a case at Mataur police station on September 23, 2017. However Kumar was nowhere to be discovered. He was declared a proclaimed offender in 2022. DSP Naveen Pal Singh mentioned that when the case was handed to him, he and his group started “connecting proof” and went to Kumar's native village. With the assistance of sarpanches and panches, police traced him to Noida, the place he was caught. Singh mentioned, “He was traced to a development web site in Noida. He joined the agency as a safety guard and was elevated to supervisor earlier than being made supervisor of the venture. In response to his employer, his conduct was excellent... They have been shocked to know that he's a double-murder accused.”
