Faridabad, June 16
A 57-year-old man died by suicide by setting himself on fire outside the Sector 17 police station here on Wednesday.
Identified as Shankar Narula of Sector 16 here, the victim reportedly poured petrol and set himself on fire on the main road outside the police station around 3.15 pm. He died on the spot.
According to reports, Narula took the extreme step soon after he came out of the police station, where he had gone regarding his complaint of blackmailing by an unidentified person.
Claiming that Narula was involved in the steel fabrication business had received a phone call from an unidentified person asking for money for not disclosing his identity in a honey trap case, police sources said he was upset with the blackmailing.
“We are probing the matter,” said Naresh Kumar, SHO, Sector 17 police station. An FSL team collected the evidence from the spot. A case has been registered in this regard. — TNS
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