Baljit Kaur, 27, was admitted to the Government Rajindra Hospital here with bullet and stab injuries. Two of her sons, Happy (aged one and a half year) and Vicky (aged about five years) were strangled while her daughter Daljit (aged about 14 years) was stabbed and her throat slit by the alleged assailants.

According to Baljit Kaur, her husband Kulbir Singh told her at around 8.30 pm on Sunday that they would be going to Rampur Bushahr for a day and come back the next day. She, along with Kulbir Singh and her son Happy occupied the back seat of the vehicle. Also with them on the back was Kulbir's friend Bunty, whom Baljit had not seen earlier. On the front seat were Goldy who was driving, Rakesh, an old friend of Kulbir whom Baljit knew fairlywell, her daughter Daljit and son Vicky.

When the vehicle crossed Zirakpur and was moving towards Banur, Kulbir suddenly got up and tried to strangulate her. She grappled with him but Bunty joined Kulbir and caught hold of her arms.

She was shot at from a country-made revolver and fell down. Simultaneously on the front seat, Rakesh strangled her daughter Daljit. Taking Daljit to be dead, they threw her on the back and she fell over Baljit. Baljit said that her husband along with Bunty chopped off skin from her arm where KS (short of Kulbir Singh) was tattooed and they thought that she had died. When the assailants heard Daljit cry out for help, they repeatedly stabbed her till she was dead.

In the meantime, the two young boys were also strangled as they cried for help and shouted at their father for attacking their mother. The assailants, Baljit said, threw out the bodies of the two boys near Kakrala.

From Rajpura, the Tata Sumo took the road to Ambala and near Chamaru village the assailants rippedoff clothes of Baljit and Daljit and dumped the two in a ditch and sped off.

Baljit Kaur said she walked to a village house and got a salwar-kameez from a villager and trekked her way to the highway.

From there, she got a lift and reported the matter to the Focal Point police post. The police recorded her statement and got her admitted to the Rajindra Hospital.

Baljit Kaur said she was a widow and had married Kulbir Singh about nine years back. Kulbir a driver, belonged to Banur and was already married and his first wife lived with his parents in Banur. Baljit is employed with a security agency in Chandigarh and deployed on duty at the PGI.

Still to recover from the shock, Baljit said she never doubted the bona fides and intentions of Kulbir who had been posing to be genuinely in love with her all these years. She said she had spent all her money and sold off all her property on Kulbir's wishes. She had at one point of time sold off her property to get a taxi for Kulbir which he later sold off.