NURMAHAL
The Nurmahal police have arrested a father-daughter duo on the charge of abetting suicide.
Station House Officer (SHO) Pankaj Kumar said that the accused have been identified as Lehambar Singh son of Sarwann Singh a resident of Bundala village and his daughter Harjit Kaur and wife of Balwinder Singh, the deceased, a resident of Poadharra village.
Manidar Singh a resident of Poadharra village Jalandhar and brother of the deceased complained to the police that Balwinder Singh was married to Harjit Kaur and went to his in-law’s house on August 15 where both husband and wife quarreled on the issue of Rs 5 Lakh given on credit to his brother-in-law (husband of wife’s sister) Jaspreet Singh a resident of Kotla Bhagu village under Nakodar Sadar police station.
The complainant said in-law’s family assaulted and humiliated his brother to such an extent that forced him to end his life adding that Balwinder consumed some poisonous substance there and breathed his last in a Jalandhar hospital.
SHO said a case under sections 108(abetment of suicide) and 3(5) (committing crime with common intention) of the B.N.S has been registered against the accused and Jaspreet Singh son of Deep Singh a resident of Kotla Bhagu village and his wife Paramjit Kaur and handed over the body of the deceased to his family after postmortem.