Bodies of Barnala engg students found in canals
Accused classmates sent to police remand
Shariq Majeed
Tribune News Service

Barnala, January 9
The three students of local engineering college, accused of killing two of their classmates, have been sent to four days police remand even as the police recovered bodies of both the deceased from the two different canals in Barnala.

Additional chief judicial magistrate Rajiv Kumar Beri, sent three students of the Hira Singh Bhattal Institute of Engineering and Technology, namely Gurjeet Singh, a resident of Nabha, Prithpal Singh, a resident of Mansa, and Baljinder Singh, a resident of village Hamirgarh to police remand till 12 January in connection with murder of Amit Sharma of Ludhiana, and Madhoop Kant Jha of Bathinda.

Police this evening recovered the body of Amit Sharma from a canal in Talwandi Sabo and that of Madhoop Kumar Jha from Harigarh Canal in Dhanola area of Barnala.

The DSP Barnala, Rupinder Bhardwaj, told The Tribune that the accused were being interrogated. He added that soon police will unfold the chronology of events.

On Friday, police had arrested the three accused after a missing report was lodged by the parents of the deceased students on January 4.

Police had found that the two boys had met the accused in Sangrur on January 2 and had allegedly consumed drugs together. They added that later, when the deceased did not give the accused their cellphones and laptops to buy more drugs, they were allegedly given coke laced with some poisonous substance. All the boys used to live in the college hostel. Police sources added that the accused had allegedly taken the deceased to a canal nearby and thrown them into the water. They added during the course of investigations, police narrowed down on the accused by tracing their phone calls.

Police sources further added that during interrogations, the three boys confessed to the crime. They added that the accused wanted money for drugs, which led to the killings. The laptops and phones have been recovered from them.