Man remanded to 7 days’ judicial custody for killing wife in Jammu

Accused husband, who was arrested for committing gruesome murder of his wife at Nandpur in the jurisdiction of Police Station (PS) Ramgarh, has been remanded to seven days police custody and police is conducting sustained interrogation to elicit further facts.

Police said 32 – year old young housewife Arti Devi was brutally murdered by her husband Gurdeep Singh, son of Raj Singh at Nandpur on October 27 and after completing inquest proceedings U/S 174 CrPC, police had converted the inquest proceedings into murder case U/S 302 IPC and accused husband was arrested.

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As sustained interrogation of the arrested husband is required to unravel further facts, police sought and got seven days remand from Judicial Magistrate and interrogation is going on by SHO Amit Sangra, SDPO, Rohit Kumar and Additional SP Samba, Surinder Choudhary.

Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Samba, Benam Tosh said that Samba police are conducting exemplary investigations in murder cases. SSP has assured the high level delegation of Nandpur, Ramgarh that all aspects of the instant murder case would be thoroughly looked into.