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Daughter kills father, rips his heart out; arrested

Accused alleges that her father used to make inappropriate advances towards her

In a gruesome case of murder, a 23-year-old woman not only killed her father but also ripped open his chest to remove the pacemaker to ensure that he was dead. The incident took place at Rajouri Garden in West Delhi late last month. The woman was assisted by her two male friends during the crime.

The accused woman, identified as Kulvinder Kaur, was arrested along with her accomplices on Monday. She alleged that her father used to make inappropriate advances towards her.

“Kulvinder Kaur killed her father Daljeet Singh (56) on the intervening night of April 29 and 30 with the help of two of her friends Prince Sandhu (22) and Ashok Sharma alias Manish alias Goku (23). The trio has been arrested by the Khyala police,” said Additional Commissioner of Police (West) Ranvir Singh.

According to the police, on the night of the incident, Kulvinder Kaur opened the door of her house to Sandhu and Sharma. They then overpowered Daljeet Singh and attacked him with a cricket stump in his sleep.

“After killing Daljeet, the trio ripped open his chest and pulled out the pacemaker from his heart to make sure he was dead. After ensuring his death, they tied his legs and neck with a cable, put him in an Innova car and then dumped the body in a canal in Khayala, West Delhi. The body was discovered by the police the following morning,” said a police officer.

In 13 minutes, heart reaches city hospital

On Monday evening, at 6.45 p.m., a green corridor was created to transport a heart from Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital to Fortis Malar Hospitals in Adyar.

With a patrol vehicle leading the ambulance, it took 13 minutes 22 seconds, four minutes longer than the planned nine, to transport the vital organ, across 16 traffic signals through Kamaraj Salai.

“Due to the many speed-breakers en route, we ran a little later than planned. At some intersections, cross traffic was also stopped for the ambulance to pass through,” a senior police officer said.

The donor, 27-year-old Loganathan from Maduranthakam, Kancheepuram, was in a road traffic accident on June 11. He was taken to the Chengalpattu government hospital, from where he was transferred to Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital on June 12. On June 16, he was declared brain dead, doctors said.

“The family decided to donate all the organs and the harvesting began in the afternoon,” a senior hospital official said.

The heart and both the kidneys went to Fortis Malar Hospitals, while the liver is being given to Christian Medical College, Vellore, the skin to Right Hospitals and the eyes to Government Ophthalmic Hospital, Egmore, said officials.

K. G. Suresh Rao, director, head of cardiac anaesthesiology at Malar Hospitals, said the heart arrived at 7.05 p.m. and was transplanted into a 21-year-old woman from Mumbai. On Monday evening, we transplanted the heart and it is now beating,” he said.