https://www.india.com/news/world/indian-student-abducted-buried-alive-by-jilted-lover-in-australia-6151383/Indian Student Abducted, Buried Alive By Jilted Lover In Australia

Jasmeen Kaur of Adelaide City was killed by Tarikjot Singh in March 2021, a month after he reported to the police for stalking.

Melbourne: In a gruesome act of revenge, a 21-year-old Indian nursing student in Australia was abducted by her rejected ex-boyfriend from India, driven nearly 400 miles and buried alive in the remote Flinders Ranges in the state of South Australia, a court has heard.

Jasmeen Kaur of Adelaide City was killed by Tarikjot Singh in March 2021, a month after he reported to the police for stalking.

Kaur was abducted from her place of work on March 5, 2021 and driven more than 400 miles while tied with zip ties in the trunk of a car Singh had borrowed from his flatmate, news.com.au portal and other websites reported. on Wednesday.

He buried Kaur in a shallow grave after making “shallow” cuts to her throat that were not enough to kill her and she was aware of her surroundings when she died sometime on March 6.

Singh pleaded guilty to the murder, but the gruesome details of his crime came to light during the Supreme Court sentencing on Wednesday.

Prosecutor Carmen Matteo said the murder was “not efficient” and Kaur “had to suffer”.

“She must have suffered consciously from what can only be described as the absolute fear of breathing in and swallowing earth and dying that way,” Matteo said.

Kaur’s family, including her mother, were in court to hear the sentencing.

The court heard that Singh planned the murder because he couldn’t get over the breakdown of their relationship.

“The way Kaur was killed really involved an unusual level of brutality,” Matteo said.

“It is not known when her throat was cut, it is not known when or how she got into that grave or was laid in it, and it is not known when that was dug, except that, according to the prosecution, it must have been when she still lay. alive and in preparation for her burial.

“[It was] a murder committed as an act of vengeance or as an act of vengeance,” she said.

Singh wrote several messages to Kaur leading up to her death which he ultimately never sent.

“Your bad luck I’m alive cheap wait and see will get the answer, everyone will get the answer,” said one message.

Singh initially denied the murder, saying Kaur committed suicide and that he buried the body, but pleaded guilty before going on trial earlier this year.

He took officers to her cemetery where they found Kaur’s shoes, glasses and work name badge in a bin, next to looped zip ties.

He was caught on CCTV hours before the murder in a Bunnings in Mile End buying gloves, zip ties and a shovel.

He faces a mandatory life sentence, with the court issuing a non-parole order next month.

His lawyer wants him to get a milder sentence, partly because they labeled it a ‘crime of passion’.

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