Staff Reporter :
Bhilai Police arrest 18-yr-old girl, detain her 17-yr-old minor sister
TWO teenage girls killed their
grandmother for property. Although the incident occurred in
Bhilai, Chhattisgarh,
the two girls who committed the crime are
residents of Nagpur.
The Bhilai Police have
arrested one of the girls
and detained her minor
sister.
The arrested girl has
been identified as
Deepjot Kaur Baljinder Singh
Sandhu (18), a resident of Baba
Laxman Apartment, Awale
Babu Square. Her minor sister
has been sent to a juvenile correctional home. Both are
accused of murdering their
maternal grandmother, Atinder
Kaur Amarsingh Sahni (56), a
resident of Purai, Bhilai.
Despite their young ages—
Deepjot just 18-year-old and
her sister approaching 17-years
of age—the sisters executed
the crime with professionalism that left even the police
astonished.
According to police, the sisters arrived in Durg from
Nagpur via Chhattisgarh
Express on July 24. They then
took an auto-rickshaw to their
grandmother’s house.
When Atinder opened
the door, the sisters
gagged her, dragged
her inside, and
restrained her by tying
her hands and feet.
They stuffed a cloth in
her mouth, suffocated
her with a pillow, and
ultimately killed her by
hitting her on the head
with a steel water bottle. The sisters stole valuables
worth over Rs five lakh, including ornaments, a mobile
phone, Rs 40,000 cash from the
cupboard, and gold jewellery.
They took the keys to
Atinder’s scooter, locked the
home from outside, and travelled to Rajnandgaon. From
there, they transported the
scooter by bus to Nagpur, abandoned it near the railway tracks,
and went home.
The crime came to light when
Atinder’s niece, Rajpreet Singh,
who lives in Bhilai, tried to contact her by phone. After 3-4 days of no communication, Rajpreet grew suspicious and
went to the house.
Upon breaking the lock,
she discovered Atinder’s
decomposed body. Initially,
the police registered a
case of accidental death,
but following the postmortem report and discovery of missing jewelry,
they reclassified it as murder
and robbery. During their
investigation, the Bhilai
police learned that Atinder’s
daughters, who live in
Nagpur, had threatened to
kill her if she did not give
them money.
The police travelled to
Nagpur and, after some initial attempts to mislead, the
sisters confessed to the robbery and murder. They were
taken into custody in Bhilai.
Deepjot and her sister had
hidden the stolen jewellery
with an acquaintance. The
police reconstructed the
entire sequence of events and
seized the looted goods based
on the information provided by the sisters.