Man consumes poison, dies; paramour booked

Our Correspondent

Tarn Taran, December 11

A resident of Vein Poin village perturbed over being cheated by his paramour consumed some poisonous substance at her village — Kallha — on Friday.

The Goindwal Sahib policehave booked Jaswinder Kaur, her husband Balwinder Singh, her sister Sukhwinder Kaur Shindi, who is a resident of Lakhna Tappa, and her brother-in-law (husband’s brother) Gurdial Singh under Sections 306 and 34 of the IPC.

ASI Balraj Singh, Investigating Officer (IO), said deceased Bikramjit Singh (37), who was the relative of one of the family members of accused Jaswinder Kaur, had an affair with her. The accused took maximum advantage of the situation and took lakhs of rupees on the pretext of giving it back, but had no intention of giving it back.

In the course, Bikramjit Singh and his wife Mandeep Kaur went to take the money back on Friday and she again dilly-dallied over it and refused to return all of it.

Perturbed over this, Bikramjit consumed some poisonous substance and died during treatment at a private hospital on Friday. The ASI said the accused were at large and the police were conducting raids to arrest them. The post-mortem of the body was conducted at the local Civil Hospital on Saturday.

Woman dies after taking poison by mistake

Kanwaljit Kaur (22), wife of Lovepreet Singh, died as she consumed some poisonous substance by mistake at her house at Sangatpur village here on Friday. Gurmeet Kaur, mother-in-law, and Kewal Singh, father of the victim, in their joint statement to Chohla Sahib police said she consumed some poisonous substance and died during treatment. — OC