Hoshiarpur: Man shoots himself after refused money for drugs

A drug addict died by suicide at Kamalpur village on Tuesday evening by shooting himself in the head with a pistol after not getting money for buying drugs. Labh Singh (37), the victim, was married and father of two.

The deceased's wife, Kulwinder Kaur, said that she was living with her husband and children. Labh used to run a gym on rent at Miani town and had been addicted to drugs for a long time. Kulwinder said that he had been admitted to the drug rehabilitation centre many times, but had not been able to give up drug addiction.

On Tuesday afternoon around 2.30 pm, he started asking for money from his wife to get drugs, and when he did not get the money, he started beating her. Kulwinder ran to her in-law's house, which was nearby. After sometime, Labh's father Sarabjit Singh and mother Surjit Kaur came to his house along with Kulwinder and tried to convince him, but he got angry and shot himself in the head with a pistol in the courtyard of the house.

Sarabjit, with help of some neighbours, took his son to the Government Hospital, Tanda, where doctors declared him dead. On receiving information, Tanda SHO Gurinderjit Singh Nagra reached the hospital and took the body in possession.