Archive · 18 Sep 2025
NRI Planned Murder of US Citizen for Money
A 71-year-old US citizen, Rupinder Kaur Pandher, traveled to India at the invitation of Charanjit Singh Grewal, an NRI she met on a matrimonial site.
Grewal asked an accomplice, Sukhjeet Singh, to kill Pandher after she sent him money.
Singh hit her with a bat and burned her body with coal.
He was promised ₹50 lakh.
Police arrested Singh, and Grewal, who is abroad, is also charged.
The motive was financial.
Rupinder Kaur Pandher, a US citizen, was murdered in Ludhiana, India.
She traveled to India at the invitation of Charanjit Singh Grewal.
Pandher sent money to Grewal before her trip.
Grewal refused to marry Pandher and hired Sukhjeet Singh to kill her, offering ₹50 lakh.
Singh hit her with a baseball bat and burned the body; he has been arrested.
- Who
- Rupinder Kaur Pandher
- What
- Murdered, body burned
- When
- July (murder), August (FIR)
- Where
- Ludhiana, India
- Why
- Financial reasons
- Victim
- Rupinder Kaur Pandher, 71, US citizen
- Accused
- Charanjit Singh Grewal (NRI), Sukhjeet Singh (arrested)
- Location
- Ludhiana, India
- Crime
- Murder
- Method
- Hit with baseball bat, body burned
- Motive
- Financial reasons
- Reward
- ₹50 lakh
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