Chandigarh, Nov 11 (PTI) SAD leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Wednesday shared a purported copy of the autopsy report of Mansa resident Daljit Singh, claiming that it supported claims of his family that he died of a drug overdose.
“Daljit Singh’s initial post-mortem report mentions MORPHINE and BENZODIAZEPINES, proving what his family had been saying all along — that he died due to drug overdose,” Badal said in a post on X.
Daljit (35) died in Bhamme Kalan village in Mansa on October 27. His body was found in a field near Ramanandi village. According to Daljit’s family, he allegedly died of a drug overdose but police registered a case of murder.
Badal, the Bathinda MP, accused the Mansa police of projecting the death of Daljit as a case of murder. She said Daljit’s family had been maintaining that he died of a drug overdose.
“The Punjab government and the Punjab Police have been COMPLETELY EXPOSED for trying to scuttle his death as ‘murder’!” she alleged in her post.
Daljit’s first post-mortem was conducted at AIIMS Bathinda and Badal shared its purported report on X.
His second autopsy was carried out at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) in Chandigarh on the directions of the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
Punjab Congress chief Pargat Singh too made similar claims. He said the police had claimed that Daljit’s death was a murder.
“Despite the family’s statements, the FIR did not mention drugs, forcing the family to approach the high court. Now, the post-mortem report has cited drug overdose as the cause of Daljit’s death.
“Yet, on the very same day, the SSP dismissed the overdose claim as ‘misinformation’,” he said.
The family of Daljit, along with others, held a ‘dharna’ and said they wanted to take his body to Mansa, where the family of anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh Jhota and others are sitting in protest demanding justice for him.
As protesters blocked a road, the police used mild force to disperse them, claiming many mischievous elements had joined the group at the site and were trying to disturb law and order.
Visuals of the police lifting the body of the deceased and carrying it across the road divider before putting it in a vehicle were shared by several opposition leaders on their social media handles. PTI CHS SUN KSS
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