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Digital Desk: In a horrifying act of vengeance, a 21-year-old Indian nursing student in Australia was kidnapped by her ex-boyfriend from India, driven over 650 kilometers, and then buried alive in the isolated Flinders Ranges of South Australia state, a court has heard.
Tarikjot Singh killed Jasmeen Kaur of Adelaide City in March 2021, a month after she reported him to the police for stalking.
Kaur was abducted from her workplace on March 5, 2021, and driven more than 400 miles (644 km) while bound with cable ties in the boot of a car Singh borrowed from his flatmate, news.com.au portal and other websites reported on Wednesday.
He buried Kaur in a shallow grave after making "superficial" incisions to her throat that were not enough to kill her, and she was aware of her surroundings when she died on March 6.
Singh pleaded guilty to the murder, but the shocking details of his act were revealed during sentence submissions before the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
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Prosecutor Carmen Matteo stated that the murder was "not efficient" and that Kaur was "made to suffer."
"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 said.
The sentencing arguments were heard in front of Kaur's family, including her mother.
According to the court, Singh planned the murder because he couldn't get over the breakup of their relationship.
"The manner in which Kaur was murdered involved, truly, an uncommon level of cruelty," Matteo said.
It's not known when her throat was cut, when or how she got into or was placed in that burial grave, and when that was dug, other than the prosecution says it had to be while she was still alive and in preparation for her burial.
"It was a killing committed as an act of vengeance or revenge," she said.
Singh penned multiple messages to Kaur in the days leading up to her death, but never sent them.
"Your bad luck that I am still alive, cheap, wait and watch, will get the answer, each and every single one of you will get the answer," one message said.
Singh first denied murder, claiming Kaur committed suicide and that he buried her body, but pled guilty before his trial earlier this year.
He led officers to the burial place, where they discovered Kaur's shoes, spectacles, and work name badge in trash alongside looped cable ties.
He was caught on CCTV hours before the murder at a Bunnings in Mile End buying gloves, cable ties, and a shovel.
He faces a mandatory life sentence, with the court imposing a non-parole period the following month.
The lawyer wants him to be sentenced more leniently, in part because the crime was labeled a "crime of passion."
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