Indian scholar ‘made to endure’, buried alive by ex-boyfriend in Australia

By India Today World Desk: An Indian nursing scholar in Australia was kidnapped and buried alive by her former boyfriend in March, 2021 in an act of vengeance after she ended the connection, a court docket heard on Wednesday. Jasmeen Kaur from Adelaide metropolis was “made to suffer” by Tarikjot Singh. On Wednesday, Singh pleaded responsible to her homicide in court docket.

Kaur, 21, was kidnapped from her office by Singh on March 5, 2021, information.com.au mentioned in a report. He drove for greater than 650 km with Kaur certain by cable ties within the boot of a automobile that Singh had borrowed from a buddy.

According to experiences, Singh made “superficial” cuts to Kaur’s throat, however not deep sufficient that would kill her. Later, she was buried alive in a shallow grave in South Australia state’s distant Flinders Ranges.

Horrific particulars of the incident got here to the fore throughout sentencing submissions on the Supreme Court. Prosecutor Carmen Matteo mentioned the homicide was “not efficient” and Kaur endured “absolute terror”.

“She had to have been consciously suffering what could only be described as the absolute terror of breathing in and swallowing soil and dying in that way,” information company PTI quoted Matteo as saying.

Matteo additionally mentioned that she was conscious of her environment when she died sooner or later on March 6.

“The way in which Kaur was killed involved, really, an uncommon level of cruelty,” Matteo mentioned. “It’s not identified when her throat was minimize, it’s not identified when or how she bought into or was positioned into that burial grave, and it’s not identified when that was dug, aside from the prosecution says it needed to have been whereas she was nonetheless alive and in preparation for her burial,” she added.

“(It was) a killing that was committed as an act of vengeance or as an act of revenge,” she said.

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According to ABC News, Jasmeen Kaur was killed a month after she filed a police complaint that she was being stalked by Tarikjot Singh, prosecutors told the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

Jasmeen Kaur’s mother was also present when the sentencing submissions were heard. She said Tarikjot was obsessed with her daughter, who refused him “100 instances”, 9News said in a report.

Tarikjot had written several messages to Kaur in the lead-up to her death that he never ended up sending. “Your bad luck that I am still alive, cheap, wait and watch, will get the answer, each and every single one will get the answer,” one message said.

Tarikjot planned the killing because he was unable to get over the breakdown of their relationship.

During the initial investigation into Jasmeen Kaur’s murder, Tarikjot denied the allegations. He had said that she had died by suicide, and he later buried her body. Singh, though, pleaded guilty before he was due to stand trial earlier this year. He even took officers to her burial site where they found Kaur’s shoes, glasses, and work name badge in a bin, alongside looped cable ties.

On the afternoon of the kidnapping, security cameras showed Tarikjot shopping for gloves, cable ties and a shovel at a hardware store, ABC News said in a report.

Tarikjot Singh faces a mandatory life sentence. His lawyer labelled it a “crime of ardour”, and urged for him to be handed a extra merciful sentence.

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