Village youngster goes missing, 'threatened suicide over Rs 100'

A youth of Talwandi Kalan village in the Jagraon subdivision has been reported to have gone missing under mysterious circumstances on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday.

The youth, identified as Sarabjit Singh (28), had last allegedly met a caretaker of a dera, situated along the Abohar branch of the Sirhind Canal near Sudhar village late on Friday night.

His motorcycle was found lying in front of a shop near the Sudhar bridge on the Mullanpur-Raikot highway on Saturday morning when parents of the youth started searching for him.

Though nobody had seen him jumping into the canal, dera caretaker Kaka Singh informed youth’s father Karamjit Singh that he (the victim) had threatened to end his life following refusal by his parents to pay him a meagre amount of Rs 100.

The Ludhiana (rural) police have initiated a probe into the sequence of events leading to disappearance of the youth. His mobile location was found to be near Sudhar about 8 pm on Friday, hours after he argued with his parents at his native Talwandi Kalan village.

Divers have been searching in the canal water to get any clue.

Preliminary investigations by the Sidhwan Bet police station revealed that Sarabjit had been working as a security guard with a private firm in Ludhiana.

DSP Dakha Varinder Khosa said parents of the youth had lodged a missing report at the Sidhwan Bet police station and further investigation in the case would be undertaken by the Sidhwan Bet police.