Main accused of double murder case, on the run for 5 yrs, became security head of Noida society

In a major breakthrough, Mohali police has arrested Gaurav Kumar, the prime accused in the double murder of senior journalist K J Singh and his mother, who had been absconding since 2020. Kumar, a resident of village Pipala in Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh was arrested from Noida on Thursday. The arrest was made under the supervision of DSP Naveenpal Singh Lehal (PPS), Special Crime Cell & Nodal Officer, PO Wing, and led by SI Balwinder Singh.

Lehal told The Indian Express it took the police over two and a half months of consistent surveillance and intelligence gathering to trace and arrest the fugitive. “Using both technical and human intelligence, we tracked his old connections and movements. Eventually, we discovered that Gaurav had been working for the past two and a half years in a