2 held for drug ‘overdose’ death

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, February 27

A 26-year-old man reportedly died here due to drug overdose. The Daba police have registered a case of culpable homicide against a woman-son duo and another woman in this regard.

The deceased was identified as Parkash Singh (Nannu). The accused have been identified as Reeta Rani, his son Ajay Kumar of Azad Nagar and a woman Poonam of the Jassian road.

Reeta and Poonam were arrested in the case today.

As per Lakhvir Singh, a resident of Sahnewal and the father of the deceased, his son had been living in the house of the accused woman for the past over two years. The woman was working as a financier and his son was assisting her in the business.

The father of the deceased said the accused woman Reeta used to torture his son due to which his son wanted to quit the job. After his son informed him about the torture, on Thursday he sent his other son Rajvir to go and meet Parkash.

“When my son visited the office of the accused woman, Parkash alleged about his physical torture. Later in the evening, we got to know that my son was lying unconscious at Reeta’s house and he was immediately taken to hospital, where doctors declared him brought dead,” alleged the victim’s father.

Investigation officer ASI Meet Ram said it could be a case of drug overdose, but the exact cause would be known once the viscera report came from the forensic science laboratory. He added that raids were being conducted to nab the remaining accused in the case. The victim’s kin alleged that the accused had administrated some drugs through injection in his body due to which he died.