LUDHIANA: A day after an elderly woman was found murdered at her house in Lakha village, the body of her husband was found buried there on Wednesday.
The woman has been identified as Shanti Devi, 81, and her husband as Hari Chand, 85.
Their son Pawan Kumar, 59, of Preet Nagar in Moga, said in his police complaint, “Of my three siblings, my younger brother Kuldeep Kumar lives in Finland.
My sister Parveen Rani started living with our parents 17 years ago following issues with her in-laws.
My second sister Anita Sharma is married to my namesake Pawan Kumar and resides in Moga.” On Monday, Parveen had gone to Anita’s place to get vaccinated against Covid.
“On Tuesday at 5.30pm when Parveen and Anita, along with her husband, reached home in Lakha, they found our mother dead and father missing.
Killers had hit our mother in the face with rods.
We looked for our father everywhere, but to no avail,” he added.
Hathur police took Shanti Devi’s body to a government hospital for the post-mortem and booked unidentified accused.
During investigation, police found the body of Hari Chand buried at the rear of his house.
The decomposed body was exhumed in the presence of a sub-divisional magistrate.
Raikot DSP Sukhnaz Singh said, “We are probing the case from various angles.
No CCTV cameras are installed at the house.
We are scanning the footage of CCTVs of the nearby areas.” Ruling out the dacoity angle, police said no costly belongings were missing.
“Parveen has two sons, one lives with his maternal uncle in Finland and the other works abroad,” said a cop.