Police nabbed woman accused in Arti Murder Case in Jammu

Aman Zutshi

Jammu:  The Jammu Police has arrested woman accused in relation to Arti murder case of Nandpur in Ramgarh area  of Samba in which main accused husband is already arrested.

The arrested lady accused is from Punjab state who intended to wed husband of the deceased.

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It is the second arrest made by the police after converting probe into murder case. Earlier, Police apprehended main culprit Gurdeep Singh for his wife’s (Arti Devi) killing and who is in Police custody for seven days.

The incident happened on  October 27 when Arti Devi, 32, a young housewife  was mercilessly killed at her house and after completing investigation u/s 174 CrPC, Police had converted probe into a murder case u/s 302 IPC and prime accused husband was arrested by Samba police.

Pertinent to mention that Arti Devi was found dead in her in-laws house on October 27 after which the Samba police conducted her post-mortem and when they found that the victim had marks on her neck, the police then launched a probe on suspicion and discovered that her husband has killed her, when the police probed further they got success today in nabbing the woman accused for whom Gurdeep Singh killed his wife (Arti Devi) to marry her.

The probe of the murder case is still on and  is being conducted by SHO Police Station Ramgarh Amit Sangra under the supervision of SDPO Vijaypur Rohit Kumar and Additional SP Samba Surinder Choudhary.