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Mohali, October 26
An unemployed youth of Bulandshahr in UP mercilessly stabbed veteran journalist KJ Singh and strangulated his nonagenarian mother Gurcharan Kaur after a tiff with Singh over sitting suspiciously in a park close to Singh’s house on the night of the crime, police claim.
Mohali SSP Kuldeep Singh Chahal told a press conference here that the kitchen knife used in the crime, Singh’s stolen Ford Ikon car, a mobile phone, a wrist watch and a DVR were recovered from the killer, Gaurav Kumar, who is in his late 20s.
Police claim that the killer executed the brutal double murder alone.
Police apprehended the killer on Thursday afternoon on Airport Road near Sohana gurdwara here when he was driving Singh’s car with a fake number plate.
Singh had questioned the youth over his sitting suspiciously in the park and slapped him, following which the youth killed the journalist and his mother, who was an eyewitness to Singh’s murder, the police claimed.
The killer was currently staying at Kajheri in Chandigarh.
