Ex-sarpanch dies by suicide

Tribune News Service
Hisar, June 24

Fed up of allegedly being blackmailed after getting trapped in a honeytrap, a former sarpanch of Malwi village in Jind district committed suicide by jumping in front of a train yesterday.

The police had registered a case of abetment to suicide against four persons, including a woman, and started investigating the matter.

The police said the former sarpanch Ramkala had been trapped by the woman and figured in a video. The woman demanded money from him to settle the matter. The police said the body was recovered from the railway tracks near Julana town and a suicide note was also recovered from the place.

The victim’s family lodged a complaint with the police against four persons, identified as Muskan, Bablu, Kuldeep and Abhimanyu. “We have registered a case and started investigation,” Railway police SHO Devender Singh said.

The former sarpanch had been dismissed from service in a forgery case in 2018.