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  • CRPF officer to hang for getting son beheaded

    MOGA (PUNJAB): In what would rank as the rarest of rare cases of paternal cruelty, a CRPF officer was on Wednesday sentenced to the gallows by a lower court in Punjab for organizing the beheading of his 20-year-old son whom he saw as an impediment in his affairs with women.

    Deputy commandant Harjinder Singh of the CRPF’s 153 battalion, along with three others, was sentenced to death by additional district and sessions judge BS Sandhu for the murder of Baghel Singh, a polytechnic student whose headless body was found from an irrigation canal about three days after he was reported missing by his friends on January 21, 2003.

    Harjinder Singh clearly had no use for his family. He had deserted his wife and refused to pay for his son’s education, forcing her to leave her young school-going son to stay with friends in a rented room and take up a teacher’s job in Nagaland in 1993...Read...
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