Chandigarh: Bodies of three minor siblings
who went missing on November 11 were today recovered from the
Morni hills area of Haryana's Panchkula district, following
which their uncle was arrested for the alleged triple murder,
police said.
We had received a complaint from the parents of Sameer
(11), Simran (8) and Samar (4), residents of Sarsa village in
Kurukshetra district, that their children have gone missing,
police said.
"We were looking for them. Then it came to our knowledge
that some family members were behind the murder. We have
recovered the bodies of children," said Kurukshetra SP
Abhishek Garg.
"There were bullet injury marks on their bodies," he
said.
Garg said the uncle, identified as Jagdeep Malik, was
arrested for the triple murder while father of the victims,
Sonu Malik, was being questioned.
"The victims' uncle has told us that he committed crime
at the behest of their father. The father was allegedly having
illicit relations with another woman," the SP said.
A case has been registered in this regard, police said,
adding that investigations were still underway.
