A year on, P’kula cops fail to crack email accounts of slain NRI

Davinder  found hanging from a tree in Morni hills on March 24, 2010

Panchkula, July 25
It’s been over a year and yet the self-proclaimed high-tech Panchkula police has failed to even crack the three email accounts of a slain non-resident Indian (NRI) residing in Australia, which could have led to crucial clues in his murder case.
Soon after Davinder Singh, the 30-year-old NRI, was killed in Morni hills last year, his brother had tipped off the Panchkula police saying that the cracking of the deceased’s email accounts could help detect the identity of the murderer.
Davinder was found hanging from a tree in Morni on March 24, 2010. The police had recovered an abandoned Maruti car (HR-70-A-2370) near the spot. Davinder's family members had, however, claimed that the NRI was murdered.
On September 20, 2010, six months after the incident, the Panchkula police closed the case after the viscera report, prepared by the Forensic Science Laboratory in Madhuban, ascribed the cause of the death to hanging. Earlier, on July 23, 2010, police had received the chemical examination report of a cold drink bottle and a condom recovered from the spot, which was not linked to the case.
Rejecting the report, sceptical family members moved an application before top officials of the Haryana police, following which an Inspector-General of the Haryana Police eventually directed the Panchkula police to register a murder case in the matter.
On directions from senior officers, the Panchkula police on December 2, 2010, re-opened the file and converted it into a murder case. Subsequently, a fresh FIR against unknown persons was lodged under Section 302 of the IPC.
But all through the investigations so far, the Panchkula police has not bothered to crack Davinder’s three email accounts that were provided by the deceased’s brother.
When contacted, Panchkula SP Maneesh Chaudhary said they had lodged an FIR and started investigations. “But in our investigation, we did not find anything which can say that it is a case of murder,” he said.
Chaudhary, however, admitted that they were yet to crack Davinder’s three email accounts. Giving a vague reason behind the delay in cracking the mail accounts, he said it was not easy to crack someone’s mail accounts.

Timeline March 24, 2010: Body was found hanging from a tree in Morni July 23: Chemical examination report received, which was negative September 18: Forensic report showed the cause of death to be suicide September 20: Panchkula police decided to close the case December 2: Cops converted it into a case of murder on the directions of senior officers

Online FIR System The Panchkula police is planning to introduce online FIR system from next year. It is also going to start e-challaning in the district and will also introduce hi-tech security system by installing 67 CCTV cameras at various locations in Panchkula. When the Panchkula police is going this much tech-savvy, it is difficult to believe that it failed to crack three mail accounts for the last one year.