Dejected over unemployment, a 35 year-old woman from Punjab attempted to commit suicide by setting herself on fire here at a ground at Sector-3, opposite the residence of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, on Friday morning. The woman had apparently been trying to meet Badal for a job for the past few days. After being unsuccessful, she took the extreme step.
Gurpreet Kaur, a native of Amritsar, had completed her 10+2 and is a computer diploma holder. After being unable to find a Government job, she set herself ablaze.A local police team rushed her to the sector-16 Government Multi Specialty Hospital, where her condition is stated to be stable now. The doctors, attending her said that Kaur has received 40 per cent burn injuries and is under treatment.
In her statement to police, Kaur said she was an orphan and had completed computer course a few years back. Punjab Government had assured to provide jobs for computer diploma holder following which she had been trying to meet the CM for getting a job. However she never received any response from the CM.Sukhchain Singh Gill, SSP UT said no FIR has been registered. A DDR has been registered at police station of Sector-3 and further investigations will be initiated after legal opinion.