Four held for youth's death

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, June 9

The police today arrested four persons, including two women, for the death of a youth due to drug overdose.

The youth, identified as Gurpreet Singh, a resident of Hoshiarpur, was found dead in his car on Friday. According to investigation, he died due to drug overdose.

Following the probe, the police arrested Karan Bhagi of Kartar Nagar, Gurwinder Singh of Khairdeen Ke village in Tarn Taran, Puja of Sandhu Colony, currently leaving in New Amritsar, and Doli Verma of Jagdambe Colony.

During the investigation, the police found that Gurpreet along with Karan and Gurwinder had consumed heroin. However, Gurpreet died at the residence of Puja. Later, they dumped his body near Shukar Chak village and fled away.

Police Commissioner Sukhchain Singh Gill said they were looking for Sukhwinder Singh of Drumma wala bazaar, who had supplied heroin to the victim. He said raids were on to nab him and ascertain the source of the contraband.

The police have added Sections 201 and 511 of the IPC and Section 29 of the NDPS Act in the FIR.

Earlier, Surinder Singh, father of the deceased, had told the police that Gurpreet was a drug addict and was under treatment for the last one year.

His son went to Jalandhar on Thursday. On Friday, he got information that Gurpreet’s body was lying on the back seat of a car parked near the bridge of Shukar Chak village. He suspected that unknown persons had injected heroin to his son, which led to his death.