Cop ends life, 5 booked

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, May 2

A Head Constable posted at the Batallion Seven at the PAP Complex commited suicide by consuming poisonous substance on Friday. Before taking the extreme step, Shresth Gill, a native of Gurdaspur, blamed two women and three men of harassment in his suicide note.

His wife Urwashi told the police that she was informed on April 30 that her husband has consumed poison. Following which, she rushed him to a nearby private hospital. During his treatment, Gill reportedly told his wife that advocate Dipika, Trilochan Sharma and three others were blackmailing him.

Unfortunately, after trying their best to revive him, doctors could not save Gill and he breathed his last on Saturday.

Cantonment police station SHO Ajaib Singh Aujla said based on the statement of the deceased’ wife and the suicide note recovered from his house, a case under Sections 306 and 34 of the IPC has been registered against advocate Dipika, Trilochan Sharma, Narinder, Sheetal and Indra Prakash. Gill is survived by his wife and two sons.

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