Man dies after spat, cops say he had ‘heart attack’

Ludhiana: A 58-year-old man died after a spat in the Sarabha Nagar main market on Monday. While kin of the victim, Satish Kumar of Harnam Nagar, alleged that two men had thrashed him to death, the police said he had no injury marks on the body, so maybe he suffered a heart attack.
Satish’s sons Dinesh Kumar and Gaurav have battery-operated toy cars and they give rides to children visiting Sarabha Nagar main market. Dinesh said on Monday at 7pm, he and his father were in the market when Anupam Sharma and his brother Deepak Sharma, who also give rides to children on similar toy cars, had a spat with them over a minor issue.
He said people in the market intervened and resolved the matter. “At night, the accused turned up there again and started thrashing me. When my father tried to intervene, the accused beat him up too. My father fell on the road and died.”
He immediately informed the police and rushed his father to hospital, where the doctors declared him dead.
Division 5 SHO inspector Daljit Singh said it was suspected that the man suffered a heart attack as there were no injury marks on his body. The police have proceeded under Section 174 of the CrPC and would take appropriate action after receiving the viscera report.