June 26 proved to be a black Thursday for many families of the city, as six people were reported dead from various spots. Among the deceased, a girl committed suicide, one person was stabbed, two people who were reported missing were found dead by the police and two people were found dead in different incidents under mysterious circumstances.
It all started with the stabbing of 40-year-old Sanjay Kumar, a resident of Zirakpur, who was stabbed to death by unknown person while he was on his way home riding his bicycle. Initially the police team investigating the matter suspected it to be a case of snatching, but when all the belongings were found intact the incident took a mysterious turn.
Even before the dust of this murder could settle, the police team got information about an unidentified body floating on the surface of Tikkar Tal lake near Morni hills in Panchkula. The deceased was identified as 32-year-old Kuldeep Kumar a resident of Bapu Dham Colony, who was reported missing since Sunday.
The police are suspecting it to be a suicide case as the family members of Kuldeep has not blamed anyone for his death and during the initial investigations, no injury marks were found on the body.
In another case of lost and found dead incident, Ravi Kumar’s body was found lying near the forest area of Dhanas in the wee hours ofThursday. According to the family members of this 22-year-old; Kumar went to buy medicines along with his uncle on Tuesday evening. After getting the medicines, the boy informed his uncle that he is going to his elder brother’s residence in Sector 38 and left.
However, Ravi who was supposed to return back by morning the following day never came back. The alarmed family members contacted his elder brother and came to know that the 22-year-old never went to his place, following which his family lodged a missing complaint and started searching him only to find him dead on Thursday.
During the course of preliminary investigations the police have found injury marks around the victim’s neck which suggest that he was strangulated. Even the face of the deceased was badly smashed with rocks. Meanwhile, the family of the victim has named a person, Poni, as a suspect.
“Poni had old revelry with my brother and he even threatened and manhandled him on several occasions,” said Ashok Kumar, victim’s elder brother.
The police were again on their heels when in two separate incidents, two different dead bodies were recovered from Sector 45 and 47. In one of the cases, Sanjay Kumar a resident of Muktsar in Punjab, was found lying unconscious in his hotel room. A police team reached the spot and rushed him to the government medical college and hospital 32, where he was declared brought dead. Sources in the police have revealed that the person was a drug addict and an overdose might have caused his death.
In another case a badly decomposed body of a 40-year old man was found lying in mud near a bridge in Sector 47. The deceased has not been identified till now and investigations are being carried out by the police, said officials.
Meanwhile, a 22-year-old lady residing in Sector 25 committed suicide by hanging herself. The police have failed to recover any suicide note from the spot of the suicide but the mother of the deceased said the her daughter who used to work as a peon in Paragon School, Chandigarh was under stress due to some reason for the past few days, which might be the cause behind her committing suicide.