Jugsalai crossing suicide case: Police probe all angles
Police scan CCTV footage of petrol pump
Jamshedpur: Police investigators are piecing the chain of events that could have led to the gruesome suicide incident of a 51 year old resident of Jugsalai. The police are working on numerous theories.
Fifty one-year-old man Pritpal Singh Saini and his 21-year-daughter Baljeet Saini committed suicide by coming in front of a speeding train near Jugsalai railway-crossing on Wednesday night. The police are scanning CCTV footage from cameras installed at the petrol pump.
A resident of O – Road in Bistupur, Pritpal who was a Tata Steel employee was disturbed as the police did not take any action against his elder brother Paramjeet Singh Saini in connection with a rape case registered with the Bistupur police station in December 2020.
Pritpal had come out along with Baljeet, his elder daughter, from his residence late in the evening claiming to go out to buy some food from a restaurant. At the Jugsalai crossing, both the father-daughter waited near a petrol pump.
During about an hour-long wait, Pritpal wrote down a suicidal note, and as a train about to pass the level-crossing at about 8.30 pm, he handed the suicide note over to one of the staff of the petrol station. Subsequently, both the father and daughter ran towards the railway tracks and came under the wheels of the speeding train.
A police party from Jugsalai police station rushed to the spot and removed the mutilated bodies. The police identified the bodies on getting the suicide note from the nearby petrol station.
City SP, Subhash Chandra Jat said father and daughter committed suicide after family issues. ” We are investigating into the chain of events that led to suicide. A case is pending with the Bistupur police station against Pritpal’s elder brother Paramjeet. It is a rape case lodged by Pritpal’s wife in December 2020. I had also looked into the case. Now the accused person will be arrested, ” said Jat.
Pritpal’s wife Gurpreet had filed a complaint with the court, leading the court to instruct the Bistupur police station to register a case of rape against Paramjeet. In this connection, the court had also issued arrest warrant against the accused, but the police yet to arrest.
Taking advantage of the police inaction, the accused who is a business man had started pressuring Pritpal to withdraw the case. After the accused who is a resident of Gangotri Apartment in Bistupur had created pressure for the withdrawal of the case Pritpal took the drastic step along with his daughter on Wednesday night.