Overview
- Officers booked and arrested Shamsher Singh, known as Shera, and his wife Kuldeep Kaur on January 9 after a man’s remains were found near the Jalandhar Bypass.
- Investigators say the victim had returned from Mumbai on January 6, briefly visited home, then went to Shera’s house and did not return.
- A severed head was discovered in a white plastic drum on January 8, with other body parts scattered nearby and some showing burn marks; one hand is still unaccounted for.
- Police report that CCTV shows the couple transporting a drum, the killing likely occurred at Shera’s residence, a saw was used to dismember the body, and a weapon has been recovered.
- Forensic sampling is complete and postmortem findings are pending, as detectives also review a possible link to a similar charred-body case and note conflicting media reports on the victim’s exact name and age.