NAKODAR
The Mehat Pur police have booked a Shahkot villager on the charges of killing a youth by giving him drug overdose.
Investigating officer (IO) Gurnam t Singh said that the accused has been identified as Vija son of Nida a resident of Sadik Pur village under Shahkot police station.
Mukhtiar Singh alias Kalu son of Lehmbar Singh a resident of the same village complained to the police that the accused administrated a drug overdose to his brother Jagtar Singh alias Kama in area of Mehat Pur which killed him on Sunday .
IO said that a case under sections 105 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the BNS has been registered against the accused. No arrest has been made and raids are being conducted to nab the absconding accused. Earlier the police have initiated proceeding under section 194 of the BNNS in this case on a statement from Mukhtiar Singh brother of the deceased.