Woman murdered in Nanak Nagar
Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Oct 1: Panic gripped Nanak Nagar locality here after a 60-62-year-old woman was found murdered inside her room this evening. The deceased has been identified as Gurcharan Kaur wife of Harjit Singh of House Number 138, Sector...
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 1: Panic gripped Nanak Nagar locality here after a 60-62-year-old woman was found murdered inside her room this evening.
The deceased has been identified as Gurcharan Kaur wife of Harjit Singh of House Number 138, Sector 11, Nanak Nagar, Jammu.
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Officials said the throat-slit body of the sexagenarian woman was spotted in a pool of blood by her daughter, after the latter opened the locked room forcibly. She later informed the police, they said.
Accordingly, a team of Gandhi Nagar Police Station arrived at the spot to analyse the crime scene, and shifted the body to the Government Medical College Jammu for post-mortem examination.
Quoting the preliminary investigation, police said the husband of the deceased woman, a former All India Radio Jammu employee, was resting in another room when the incident happened, while his son has been reported missing after the incident.
Taking cognisance of the incident, police have registered a murder case under FIR number 273/2026 under the relevant sections of the law at Police Station Gandhi Nagar and started further investigation into the matter.
