The Tribune (September 19, 1998)
Mystery shrouds woman's death
Tribune News Service
KARNAL, Sept 18 — Mystery shrouds the death of Rajni Devi, a middle-aged woman, whose body was found under mysterious circumstances on the night of September 8. The police disposed of the body, declaring it to be unclaimed.Mr Ravinder Kumar, the husband of the woman, in a petition to the Haryana Chief Minister, Mr Bansi Lal, has alleged that the police did not care to get the body identified before declaring it unclaimed. Besides the police did not make any effort to find any clues about the "murder". So far nobody had been arrested. According to the facts narrated in the petition by Ravinder Kumar, he had gone to Kurukshetra with his wife on September 8 to meet his uncle Chander Prakash. Later, the petitioner sent his wife back to Karnal where his children were present. But she did not reach Karnal. The following day when Ravinder Kumar reached Karnal, he found that Rajni Devi had not reached home the previous night. He lodged a report at the police station in Kurukshetra on September 10. It was only on September 14 that he came to know through a newspaper that an unclaimed and unidentified body of a woman had been found near a dhaba on the GT Road at Karnal. He went to the police station and identified the photograph of his wife. By then, the body had been consigned to flames. Mr Ravinder Kumar has alleged that the police did not care to find the whereabouts of Rajni Devi. Besides, he said some persons had seen Rajni Devi alive at around 7.30 p.m. on September 8 near the dhaba. He further alleged that despite his indication to the police about the suspect, the police had failed to nab him. A deputation of local citizens, led by former Excise and Taxation Minister, Mr Jai Prakash Gupta met the district police chief and asked him to nab the culprit.
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