Harshita Dahiya case: Brother-in-law admits to murder during police interrogation

The brother-in-law of Haryana singer Harshita Dahiya accepted during interrogation that he was behind her murder said Deputy SP Panipat Desh Raj on Friday.

A day after Haryanvi singer Harshita Dahiya was killed, her jailed brother-in-law has emerged as the main suspect in the crime as Harshita's sister Lata alleged that her husband Dinesh had got the artist killed because she was the prime witness in their mother's murder in 2014 in which he is an accused.

Haryana Police produced Harshita Dahiya's brother-in-law Dinesh in Panipat Court on Friday and he was sent to four-day police custody.

On Wednesday, 22-year-old Haryanvi singer was shot dead by unidentified assailants at Chamrara village in Haryana's Panipat district, police said.

Harshita Dahiya was shot when she was on her way back home in a car at around 4 PM after her performance at a function in the village, police said.

"When she was returning, a black car overtook her vehicle near Chamrara and forced it to stop," Panipat DSP Desh Raj said.

He said two unidentified youths asked the two assistants and the driver of the singer to come out of the car and later shot her in the vehicle.

The assailants fired seven bullets and six bullets hit Harshita's forehead and neck, resulting into her on the spot death, police said, adding that the youths fled the scene after killing her. A murder case had been registered and investigations were underway, the DSP said. Harshita was living in Narela in Delhi.