The decomposed body of a 90-year-old woman who had gone missing two days earlier from the Jaurkian village here was found stuffed in a trunk at a house in the village today. Police have booked the house owner, Jagsir Singh, a labourer, in connection with the murder.
Police said the deceased, Sukhdev Kaur, had left her house on Thursday to offer prayers at the village gurdwara but did not return. Her family and villagers subsequently launched a search operation.
Police later conducted searches at several houses on suspicion. During the search of one house, they recovered Sukhdev Kaur’s body from a trunk at the residence of Jagsir Singh.
Preliminary investigation suggests that the elderly woman was murdered during a robbery attempt.
Sub-Inspector Balvir Singh, SHO of the Jaurkian police station, said, “The body was recovered from a trunk inside Jagsir Singh’s house. A forensic team examined the scene, and the body was sent for the postmortem examination. We have found that Jagsir first robbed the woman of her gold ornaments on a secluded street in the village. When she recognised him, he strangled her and later dumped the body in a trunk at his house.”
