{"id":5856,"date":"2017-09-24T12:09:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T12:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=5856"},"modified":"2017-09-24T12:09:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T12:09:43","slug":"scribe-mother-found-killed-sit-to-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/scribe-mother-found-killed-sit-to-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Scribe, mother found killed; SIT to probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mohali<\/p>\n<p>Senior journalist KJ Singh (65) and his mother Gurcharan Kaur (92) were found brutally murdered at their residence here this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>As directed by Punjab CM Capt Amarinder Singh, the police have set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) under Inspector General (Crime) to probe the double murder.<\/p>\n<p>The killers \u2014 at least two in number, as circumstantial evidence suggests \u2014 stabbed KJ Singh in the stomach and slit his throat. His mother was strangled to death. The bodies were found in the victims\u2019 bedrooms.<\/p>\n<p>The killers took away an LCD TV, the journalist\u2019s cellphone and his car. Strangely, the gold chain that he was wearing and a wallet with Rs 25,000 in cash were untouched. \u201cThe assailants tried to make it look like robbery. But their motive was clearly something else,\u201d said Mohali Superintendent of Police (Detective) HS Atwal.<\/p>\n<p>The crime was discovered when KJ Singh\u2019s sister Yashpal Kaur and her son Ajay Pal went to deliver lunch around 1 pm today.<\/p>\n<p>KJ Singh had worked with the Indian Express and also The Times of India. His last job was with The Tribune as Chief News Editor.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohali Senior journalist KJ Singh (65) and his mother Gurcharan Kaur (92) were found brutally murdered at their residence here this afternoon. As directed by Punjab CM Capt Amarinder Singh, the police have set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) under Inspector General (Crime) to probe the double murder. The killers \u2014 at least two [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[314],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-punjab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5858,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5856\/revisions\/5858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}