Indian student was tied with cables, buried alive in Australia; shocking details emerge after murder
Australia, July 6: A 21-year-old nursing student from India was tied with cables and buried alive by her ex-boyfriend in Australia's Flinders Ranges, a court heard on Wednesday, as per 9News.
The victim was identified as Jasmeen Kaur. Her Indian-origin ex-boyfriend Tarikjot Singh committed the act in an "act of vengeance", the court was further told during the hearing.
Tarikjot was accused of kidnapping Kaur and killing her in March 2021.
In February of this year, he pleaded guilty to her murder. Singh had dumped the woman's body in a shallow grave, which the police discovered.
Prosecutors claimed Singh planned her murder because he couldn't get over the breakup of their relationship. Rashpaul, Jasmeen Kaur's mother, claimed Singh was obsessed with her daughter, who had refused him "a hundred times."
According to 9News, Singh kidnapped Kaur from her workplace in Adelaide and drove for four hours with the woman in the boot of the car.
Her body was found in a shallow grave in the Flinders Ranges, blindfolded, with her limbs bound with wire ties and gaffer tape.
Prosecutor Carmen Matteo described the incident as being an "uncommon level of cruelty."
"She had to have been consciously suffering what could only be described as the absolute terror of breathing in and swallowing soil and dying in that way," Matteo stated.
Kaur's family, particularly her mother, previously stated that she was "tormented at the thought" of what her daughter had endured in her final moments.
"I go through a terrible sequence of events, I wonder when she realised she was in mortal danger," she said. "There was no one to rescue her, she spent her last hour on this earth with the worst of humanity. Jasmeen is gone and I am heartbroken, she was a precious little girl."
The man was told in court that he would be imprisoned for life.
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