SIT recovers weapon used in Amandeep murder case in Jammu

In a major break through, the state Special Investigation Team (SIT) has recovered the original weapon used in a high profile murder case from Narwal area here.

The weapon, used by Jatinder Singh alias Raja, to murder Amandeep Singh, son of former NC legislator Deepinder Kaur, was recovered last evening, police said today.

The country-made pistol was subsequently replaced with a rusted weapon in Gandhi Nagar police station in connivance with police officers, including former Senior Superintendent of Police (Jammu) Manohar Singh, they said.

A SIT team recovered it after Nagar Singh, the father of accused Raja, confessed during interrogation that he had taken the original weapon from police and threw it in the bushes along Narwal by-pass, IGP (Jammu) Ashok Gupta told PTI.

The recovery, done in the presence of a magistrate, was photographed and video-graphed by the SIT for evidence during judicial determination, police said, adding it has been kept in the custody of Gandhi Nagar police station.

Six police officers, who are presently in jails, were suspended on September 19 after destruction of evidence was established while the SIT was constituted on September 20 for fresh investigations in Amandeep murder case.

Amandeep succumbed to his injuries at Ganga Ram hospital in New Delhi, a day after he was shot at in his house in the presence of his mother and brother at Shastri Nagar on August 29.