A police team arresting Maninder SIngh (in brown turban), the accused, while he was giving an interview to a T... Read More

CHANDIGARH: The man accused of killing a 29-year-old nurse at a hotel in Industrial Area, Phase II, was arrested while giving an interview to a private TV news channel in the city on Tuesday.

Rajdeep Singh, Sector 31 police station house officer, rushed to the office of the TV channel at Industrial Area, Phase II, after watching 31-year-old Maninder Singh on-air around 7.30pm and took him in police custody.

Sources said the Sector 30 resident confessed to have murdered his lover Sarabjit Kaur for allegedly having an affair with another person. The accused had given the same reason for a murder he had committed in 2010 in Haryana. had allegedly stabbed the woman to death in a park at Karna Lake, a tourist attraction, in Karnal in 2010. Maninder was out on bail in the 10-year-old murder case.

On January 1, the nurse working in a private hospital in Mohali was found murdered in a room of Sky Hotel. Sarabjit's throat had been slit with a sharp-edged weapon. Sarabjit, who belonged to Sangrur in Punjab and was residing in Gracier hostel in Sector 69 of Mohali, had booked the room for two days on December 30. She had checked in with Maninder. She was to check out at 12 noon on January 1. Police said the staff noticed that she had not stepped out till 1.30pm. When she did not respond to repeated knocks, an employee opened the door with a master key and found her lying in a pool of blood. Police suspected that Maninder killed her on December 30 night. CCTV footage of the hotel showed Maninder going out of the premises alone at 11.55 pm on December 30.

