Lalru residents block highway

Lalru, June 24

Lalru residents, including family members of a girl who committed suicide, today blocked the Ambala-Chandigarh national highway in protest against the police for not arresting the suspects for abetting 32-year-old’s suicide.

Residents blocked the highway near the ITI Chowk by keeping the body of Kuldeep Kaur on the road in protest against the police for not arresting the two officials whose names were mentioned in the suicide note. The protesters said they would not lift the dharna until the police arrested the suspects.

Kuldeep Kaur, who was working as a clerk in the Technical Education Department, had committed suicide by jumping before the Shatabdi train on the Ambala-Chandigarh railway track in Lalru on Wednesday.

Malkit Singh, brother of the deceased, told the police that his sister was working in the Technical Education Department in Sector 36, Chandigarh. He alleged that his sister was being harassed for a long time by Superintendent Bhupinder Singh and Senior Assistant Arvinder Singh. He said they were physically abusing her. He said the Deputy Director of the department was also informed about this, but no action was taken against the two officers.

The Railway Police had registered a case against Superintendent Bhupinder Singh and Senior Assistant Arvinder Singh, but not arrested them.

The residents said they would not cremate the body until the suspects were arrested. The body has now been kept at the mortuary of the Civil Hospital in Dera Bassi.

Dera Bassi DSP Gurbaksh Singh, DSP Railway Davinder Singh, SHO Railway (Patiala) Gurdarshan Singh and Lalru SHO Bhinder Singh Khangur arrived on the site. They assured the family members that the matter was being investigated and the suspects would be arrested soon.

DSP Railway Davinder Singh said they were holding meetings with the family and officials and added that raids would be conducted to nab the suspects. — TNS