Doctor murdered in Kurukshetra, 5 accused arrested

 Doctor murdered in Kurukshetra, 5 accused arrested

Kurukshetra, Jan 10 --- Acting swiftly the Kurukshetra police claim to have traced the murder of a young lady doctor here last evening by arresting five accused involved in looting and murder today evening.

Addressing a hurriedly called press conference here today in the evening, the Superintendent of Police, S.S. Bhoria said that immediately after the incident at Dr. Atul Arora’s clinic last night, an SIT under the command of CIA-2 was constituted, which collected all evidence from the spot besides from CCTV cameras and using electronic gadgets during whole night succeeded in tracing the accused.

He said that at about 3.45 pm today, the police got information that five accused were travelling from Pehowa to Kurukshetra in their car. A police team followed them. When close to Kurukshetra, the accused turned towards Dhand Road. When police tried to stop them, they fired on the police party, and the police retaliated in which one of the accused got injured in his feet.

He disclosed that 4 accused are from the Kaithal district of Haryana, and one is from the Aligarh area of Uttar Pradesh. He said that four country-made 315-bore and one 132-bore revolver were recovered from their possession.  

He refused to identify the accused till they are produced before the court as well as presented for the Identification parade tomorrow.

However, he said that during preliminary interrogation, it has come out that the robbery was a motive, but when lady doctor Vinita Arora physically resisted, she was assaulted, and she got a head injury resulting in her death.

The accused had also disclosed where they had placed the jewellery and cash of Rs.1.50 lakh looted from the home of the deceased doctor, which police would recover later.

 

60 years old Dr.Vinita, as a hobby used to make and sell cakes and biscuits, in her bakery at home, in sector-13, Urban Estate, here.

According to some employees of the Dr. Atul Arora Clinic, four persons had come to the clinic at about 9 pm in a car and went upstairs to take delivery of a cake ordered a day earlier.

Meanwhile, Dr. Atul Arora went up to the first floor after attending to the patients in the clinic. As soon as he reached upstairs the accused pointed a pistol over his head and looted cash and other jewellery placed at various places in the home.

As the accused went inside the adjoining room, Atul Arora jumped from the first floor on the back side of the home and called upon the neighbours, and also made a phone call to the police.

By the time Dr. Atul came back to his clinic, the accused had left the place carrying the loot in their bags and found Vinita Arora lying in a pool of blood in one of the rooms, while his old parents were in the adjoining room.

Police said probably, the victim would have resisted the criminal who hit her head. She died on the spot.

The police are learned to have been working on the theory that one of the Arora family's maidservants had committed a theft in the home recently after which she was turned out after scolding a few months back.

Police suspect, she had connections with a few criminals who planned the robbery to take revenge.

Dr Vinita had asked one of her servants to tell the person to take the delivery of the booked cake at 3 pm, but he said that they would come at 9 pm to take delivery of the cake.

Hundreds of residents from all walks of life including politicians attended the funeral of the deceased doctor in the evening today.

My sister Prabha Anand’s poem book was released by Sharmila Tagore

 My sister Prabha Anand’s poem book was released by Sharmila Tagore

I had a very nice interaction with eminent actress Sharmila Tagore for about one hour on January 5, 2023, at Gurugram. The occasion was the launching of a program to make contract-blindness-free Gurgaon under the Prime Minister’s National Blindness and Vision Defect Control Program at the premises of Arunodaya Desert Eye Hospital, Gurgaon where famous actress and goodwill Ambassador for UNESCO, Sharmila Tagore, was the chief guest, in the august presence of Gurugram Commissioner R.C. Bidan and Prof. Dinesh Singh, a renowned academician and former Vice-Chancellor of Delhi University, besides others. Besides, Sharmila Tagore released a book ‘Jeevan Jharokha’ a compilation of Poems by 85 years old my sister, Prabha Anand, on the occasion.

Sharmila’s husband ‘Tiger’ Mohamad Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi was remembered and his outstanding contributions to Indian Cricket were highlighted as it happened to be his birth anniversary.

During the informal talk before the launching of the campaign. Prof. Dinesh Singh recalled how young ‘Tiger’ Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi revamped the Indian team in the early 60s as the youngest ever captain of a team in the world at the age of 21. In the absence of a fast bowler, he used the strength of Indian spinners and his victories included India's first-ever Test match series win overseas against New Zealand in 1968, where in one of the matches Indian spinners opened the bowling with a new ball.  

Discussing various challenges being faced by the Hindi movie industry she said that besides challenges from south Indian movies, the Hindi movie industry faces challenges from regional movies.  She said that the cost of Hindi movies has gone very high with good actors asking for Rs. 75 crores and more for one movie. Besides, the lack of availability of good stories is also adversely affecting Hindi cinema. Regional movies especially dubbed ones with much less financial cost are giving challenges to Hindi movies through digitization.

Sighting the difference between her time and the current phase of filmmaking, the actress said that the film industry has become more systematic and the public craze towards movie actors has declined in view of various programmes in the electronic media.

Everything is organised now. Actors work in one film at a time. We used to do four or five films at a time and were not able to experiment with too many things. But the heart was in the right place, and everybody worked passionately. We had wonderful directors like Bimal Roy, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, and Raj Kapoor," she said.

Sharmila, who started her career with Satyajit Ray's Bengali film Apur Sansar, made a switch to Bollywood with hits like Aradhana, An Evening in Paris, and Mausam, but the actress never lost touch with regional cinema.

Sharmila Tagore appreciated the work done by the Arunodaya Desert Eye hospital trust (being run by my niece an eminent eye surgeon Dr. Reena and her husband Dr. Arun Sethi along with their all doctor children) in eradicating the cataract-blindness in the rural areas of Gurugram.