Haryana Man Kills, Buries Woman Who Returned From Canada To Marry Him

The victim's family had filed a missing complaint with the Ganaur Police in November 2022

The postmortem on Wednesday confirmed that the cause of her death was being shot in the head.

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The Bhiwani Police on Tuesday, 4 April, found the skeletal remains of a 23-year-old woman at her boyfriend’s farm at the Garhi Jhanjhara road in Gumar, Haryana. The man had allegedly killed her by shooting her twice. 

In presence of the Bhiwani CIA-II police, the Ganaur DCP, and the station-in-charge, the body was recovered from a 10-foot-deep ditch in the farm.

The postmortem on 5 April confirmed that the cause of her death was being shot in the head, Bhiwani CIA-II in-charge Ravindra Kumar told The Quint.

Lured Under Pretext Of Marriage, Killed 

Sunil, hailing from Haryana’s Gumar village, had allegedly shot Neelam, a Rohtak native working in Canada, in June 2022.

Neelam’s sister, Roshni, had filed a missing complaint with the Ganaur Police in November 2022, after she realised that they could no longer get in touch with her. She had alleged that Sunil had lured Neelam into coming back to India under the pretext of marriage in January 2022 and had kidnapped her on her return. 

The accused Sunil alias Shila.

Based Roshni’s complaint, the police had lodged a kidnapping case but Sunil had been absconding. On 2 April this year, Sunil was arrested from Uttar Pradesh.

In a confession made to the police, he allegedly confessed to having murdered Neelam in June last year and having buried her skeletal remains at his farm to hide evidence.

The police have stated that Neelam, who was a Business Management student, had gone to Canada in January 2022, but Sunil had called her back the very same month. After they got married, Neelam went back but Sunil once again called her to India.

A police statement said that in the next six months, Sunil kept Neelam, who had been abducted, at various locations, and when he feared that he might get caught, he decided to end her life.

Accused Already Married With Children

Kumar told The Quint that Sunil was already married and had two children with another woman. However, he also married Neelam last year at a Ghaziabad temple and got the marriage registered at a Ghaziabad court.

However, he added that Neelam was aware that he was already married to someone. 

The accused has now been charged under Indian Penal Code Sections 302 (Murder), 495 (Concealing marriage), 365 (Kidnapping), 201 (Causing disappearance of evidence), and 25 (A) (Posession of prohibited arms), according to Kumar. He is currently in police remand.

Haryana police officials have stated that Sunil has several cases filed against him, which included attempt to murder, possession of an illegal gun, and hooliganism.

(With inputs from Parvej Khan and Davinder)