Punjab: Tea shop set on fire, suspect hangs self

LUDHIANA: A LPG cylinder blast was witnessed at a tea shop in Sunet village on Monday morning. When police reached there, they found a labourer hanging on a ceiling fan in his accommodation near the spot. The man was also a suspect in the cylinder blast case.
According to the police, the man and the owner of the tea shop had a verbal spat, against which a police compliant was also lodged on Saturday.
Deceased is identified as Shyam Dubey, 34, of Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh. He was living in a rented accommodation in Sunet. Days ago, he had a spat with Rajani Verma, owner of the tea shop.
On Monday, at around 4am, the residents of Suent woke up to an explosion in the tea shop. Thereafter, the police were called. The owner named Shyam as suspect to the police, upon which the police reached Dubey’s house to question him. But they found him hanging on the ceiling fan.
Assistant commissioner of police (ACP, west) Sameer Verma said prima facie, it looked as if the man had hung himself after setting the shop on fire. “But we are also not ruling out foul play by the tea shop owner. We are probing the case from all angles,” added the ACP.