Ex-DIG Kultar Singh gets 8 years in jail for driving family to suicide

AMRITSAR: Almost 16 years after five members of a family ended their life, a trial court here on Wednesday sentenced former Punjab Deputy Inspector General Kultar Singh and four other police personnel to eight years of imprisonment for abetting suicide in 2004. Hardip Singh, his wife, mother and two children allegedly committed suicide on October 31, 2004, after consuming poison in this city. Before the suicide, the family had written a note on walls of a room of their house and had also sent copies of the suicide note to friends and acquaintances by post. Kultar Singh was posted as the Senior Superintendent of Police here when they committed suicide. The family blamed the police for forcing them to take the extreme step. (IANS)

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