Ludhiana: A youth who had been missing for nearly 10 days was found dead inside the bathroom of an abandoned dhaba on Raikot Road in Jagraon Wednesday. His wife has alleged that one of his friends administered an injection to him shortly before his condition deteriorated.Police have registered a case against the accused, Karamveer Singh of Dholan village, on the basis of the complaint. Police said the exact cause of death would be established after the post-mortem report.The deceased, Kuljinder Singh of Hans Kalan village, had returned to Punjab from Rajasthan on Nov 1 after working with a combine harvester during the harvesting season.According to his wife, Ravinder Kaur, Kuljinder called her around 10am that day and told her that he had lost his mobile phone and was calling from another phone. He said he had met Karamveer at Chowkiman bus stand and complained of severe body ache and ill-health.In her complaint, Ravinder alleged that Karamveer offered Kuljinder an injection, claiming it would make him feel better, and demanded Rs 500 for it. She alleged that Kuljinder’s condition deteriorated after the injection was administered.Karamveer then allegedly took Kuljinder in his car and dropped him at Raikot Adda in Jagraon. Kuljinder subsequently called his wife and told her that his condition had worsened, asking her to reach the spot immediately.However, by the time Ravinder and other family members reached Raikot Adda, Kuljinder was nowhere to be found.Ravinder alleged that when she went to Karamveer’s house in Dholan village the following day to enquire about her husband, the family did not open the gate. Karamveer later told her that he had dropped Kuljinder at Raikot Adda and did not know where he had gone thereafter.The family lodged a missing-person complaint with Jagraon City police on Nov 6.On Nov 11, the family received information that Kuljinder’s body was lying inside a damaged bathroom at an abandoned dhaba near the road leading to Kothe Rahla on Raikot Road. Police reached the spot, took the body into custody and sent it to the govt hospital in Jagraon for post-mortem examination.DSP Jagraon Jaswinder Singh said a case had been registered against the accused under a provision relating to causing death by negligence. He said the exact cause of death would become clear after the post-mortem report.On whether the death could be linked to a drug overdose, the DSP said the complainant had made no such allegation. Her complaint specifically alleged that Kuljinder had been administered a “wrong injection”.
