32-year-old man found dead at Baltana house

Tribune News Service

Mohali, April 9

A 32-year-old man was found dead in suspicious circumstances at a house in Saini Vihar, Baltana, falling under the Zirakpur police station today.

The deceased has been identified as Pradeep Singh.

Investigating officer Bhinder Singh said Pradeep Singh, a native of Muktsar, was working as a property dealer. He said during preliminary investigations, it was revealed that Pradeep, his wife and daughter were living in a rented accommodation on the second floor of a house in Phase II of Saini Vihar.

Bhinder Singh said on seeing the body, the landlord informed the police control room following which a police team reached there and took the body into its custody.

The officer said blood was oozing out of the deceased’s mouth. He said it appeared that he had suffered a severe heart attack. He said the body had been kept at the mortuary of the Civil Hospital in Dera Bassi where a post-mortem examination would be conducted tomorrow.

He said that actual cause of the death would be known through the autopsy report.