Addict ends life in jail as bail cancelled

Tribune News Service

Faridkot, June 29

A 32-year-old drug addict allegedly committed suicide in the Faridkot central jail on Friday evening.

Belonging to a poor family, Tarsem Singh, alias Sema, of Guru Teg Bahadur Nagar here was arrested by the Faridkot police on June 13 last year for allegedly possessing drugs and 110 tablets of a psychotropic substance. A case under Section 22 of the NDPS Act was registered against him.

However, in February this year, after seven months in jail, Tarsem Singh was released on bail after his family members furnished a surety bond for him.

Once out of jail on bail, Tarsem again started consuming drugs and all efforts by his family to rein him failed.

Expecting he would be rehabilitated in jail, Tarsem’s family members again sent him to jail on June 20 by withdrawing the surety bond for his release.

Tarsem suffered acute withdrawal symptoms in the jail, following which he was admitted to the de-addiction centre in the jail. However, keeping in view his critical condition, he was shifted to the Faridkot Civil Hospital and after two days of treatment, he was against sent back to the jail.

Succumbing to his crave for drugs and acute withdrawal symptoms, Tarsem Singh allegedly hanged himself to death on Friday.

The jail authorities have sent the body to Guru Gobind Singh Medical College and Hospital, Faridkot, for a postmortem examination and written to the District and Sessions Judge, Faridkot, for a magisterial inquiry into his death.