The UK-based NRI who ordered the murder of a 71-year-old US citizen of Indian origin had met her on a matrimonial site and had promised her killer Rs 50 lakh and a new life abroad, police have said.
Rupinder Kaur Pandher, 71, had seen 75-year-old Charanjit Singh Grewal’s profile on a matrimonial site and the two began talking. Pandher, who lived in Seattle, was involved in a property dispute and Grewal offered to help and got her in touch with Sukhjeet Singh, a resident of Kila Raipur in Ludhiana Patti, who was a typist in a local court.
Police said that as the two grew closer, Grewal asked Pandher, who had been married twice earlier, to marry her and, later, made her transfer large sums of money to him. He then asked her to come to Ludhiana, where he is originally from, in July and made her stay with Singh, who was helping her with the legal matter.
