A suspect arrested in a robbery case was found dead under mysterious circumstances in the bathroom of the Baghapurana police station here today. The police claimed it was a suicide case. - File photo
Moga, May 17
A suspect arrested in a robbery case was found dead under mysterious circumstances in the bathroom of the Baghapurana police station here today. The police claimed it was a suicide case.
Issuing orders for judicial inquest, SSP Gulneet Khurana marked a departmental probe against the cops on duty. He also requested the health authorities to form a medical board for the post-mortem, to be conducted at the district hospital here.
Deceased Makhan Singh was arrested from Manuke Sandhuan village in Ludhiana district in a robbery case.
The SSP said after the arrest, the suspect was produced in the court of judicial magistrate, which remanded him in two-day police custody.
Preliminary probe suggested Makhan used his T-shirt to hang himself from the bathroom’s window grill, which the CCTV footage confirms. The SSP claimed Makhan was a drug addict.
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