Manila NRI murderer , may flee the Country

Murder accused flees to Manila
Manvir Saini
THE TIMES OF INDIA
[ 13 Jul, 2006 0235hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]

PANCHKULA: While the district police is struggling to get the passport number and other details of Kuldeep Singh, a Non Resident Indian (NRI) who is accused in Ramanpreet murder case, the former is cooling off his heals in Manila (Philippines), bringing the entire investigation process to a halt.

Even as the day, date and the route of his escape could not be known, confirming the development, district police chief Balbir Singh on Wednesday informed that proceedings to bring him back have been initiated. "

Although officially it is yet to be confirmed, Kuldeep has joined his mother in Manila and she has conveyed the same to his father, who is based in India," he said.

Notably, the incident dates back to June 10, when Ramanpreet, a Barnala resident who was pursuing a crash course at a Sector 17 institute in Chandigarh, was found murdered on the roughtracks on Ghaggar riverbed in Sector 27. A murder case was registered at Chandimandir station.

It was nearly ten days after the incident that the victim was identified by her widowed mother, who came to know about the incident through news reports and enquiries made from paying guest accommodation in Sector 22.

Ramanpreet's refusal to marry Kuldeep is learnt to have resulted in the incident. The two had been having an affair since childhood and had even got engaged last year.

But it was exactly a couple of days before their marriage that Ramanpreet eloped with somebody else and Kuldeep left for Manila, after marrying some other girl.

Explaining the sequence of events, police informed that on June 2 Kuldeep came back to India. On June 9 when he had an altercation with his brother-in-law at Barnala and followed Ramanpreet's mother who had come down to Chandigarh to know about her well-being. Later he allegedly committed the crime.

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