Punjab SP acquitted as witnesses turn hostile

CHANDIGARH: A local court has acquitted Punjab Police superintendent of police (SP) Mohan Lal in an abetment to suicide case after the main witnesses turned hostile.
Lal was accused of abetting the suicide of 23-year-old Lovepreet Kaur, who was living in a rented apartment in Zirakpur for nearly three months with him. Lal had promised to provide her a job in Punjab Police. She had jumped to her death on May 17 from the balcony of their sixth-floor apartment.
Lal was married and had college-going children.
He was acquitted by the court of additional sessions and district judge Parminder Pal Singh. Deceased's father Lakhwinder singh, uncle Baljinder Singh and their family friend Budha Singh, who all had earlier given statements against Lal, turned hostile in the court.
The FIR was registered by the victim's father, a head constable with Punjab Police, on June 24.
Mohan, who was posted in Batala city in Gurdaspur district, had been transferred to the state crime branch, Chandigarh, in June but he was suspended after an FIR was registered against him.