City jeweller booked for abetting driver’s suicide

ZIRAKPUR: A day after 50-year-old Avinash Yadav committed suicide by jumping before a train at Gazipur village here, the Government Railway Police (GRP), Lalru, today registered a case of abetment of suicide against his employer Ajit Jain, a Chandigarh jeweller, at whose place robbers had struck on January 9.

The wailing son of deceased Avinash Yadav. Tribune photo

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Zirakpur, January 20

A day after 50-year-old Avinash Yadav committed suicide by jumping before a train at Gazipur village here, the Government Railway Police (GRP), Lalru, today registered a case of abetment of suicide against his employer Ajit Jain, a Chandigarh jeweller, at whose place robbers had struck on January 9.

Pankaj Yadav, the eldest son of Avinash, submitted an application to the GRP seeking registration of an FIR against the jeweller for subjecting his father to mental torture, which drove him to end his life. He also blamed the Chandigarh Police for harassing his father in the name of interrogation as mentioned in the alleged suicide note of his father.

Pankaj said the UT police picked his father several times to interrogate him and tortured him. He wanted the GRP to conduct an inquiry into the events leading to his father’s suicide.

Bimal Kumar, SHO, GRP, said, “We have registered a case against Ajit Jain and started investigations.”

He added that the contents of the suicide note would be sent to a lab to test if it was the deceased’s handwriting.

Ajit Jain said, “The police are trying to save their skin and in the process, making me a scapegoat. If I had any role in the suicide, Avinash would have mentioned it in the suicide note. The victim is being victimised here.”

Meanwhile, a panel of three doctors from Civil Hospital, Dera Bassi, today conducted the post-mortem examination of the body. They reportedly found the vital organs badly damaged. Later, the body was handed over to the family members of the deceased.

Police harassed my father: Pankaj

"The police harassed my father to the extent that he was unable to bear the shame. A day before ending his life, my father told me that he faced a lot of humiliation as he was being treated like an accused. He was very gloomy and upset but we never thought he would take the extreme step. How can the police treat an innocent person like this?" — Pankaj Yadav, deceased’s son