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A day after the body of a 31-year-old man identified as Monu was recovered from a vacant plot on Dhandra Road in Punjab’s Ludhiana, the police booked seven accused and arrested one of them for allegedly giving drugs to him.
The police identified the arrested accused as Sukhwinder Singh alias Bunty and the others who were booked as Rakesh Kumar, Paras Sahni, Rajan Dhudia, Gurpreet Singh, Aakash and Bablu.
The FIR was registered on the statement of Jaspal Kaur, the mother of the victim, a resident of Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar in Dhandra. Monu’s mother said that he had left the house with Bunty Wednesday evening saying that he will return in a few minutes. When he did not return till late, the family started looking for him.
On Thursday morning, locals informed her that the body of her son was lying in a vacant plot. The woman said that Monu was a drug addict but was undergoing drug de-addiction treatment. She alleged that Bunty gave him drugs again, following which he died.
Police Sub-Inspector Harmesh Singh, who is investigating the case, said that during questioning, Bunty revealed the names of the other accused, following which they too were booked. He added that Bunty told the police that they had all gathered at a park and injected drugs. Subsequently, he allegedly told the police, Monu collapsed and died.
An FIR under Section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the Indian Penal Code was registered at Sadar police station.
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