Youth Akali Dal leader commits suicide, seven booked

Ludhiana: Santokh Singh Sukhana, national general secretary of the Youth Akali Dal, was found hanging in a bathroom of a hotel, with a suicide note in his pocket. Later the police recovered another note from his residence. Seven people, including two senior leaders of the ruling Akali Dal have been booked, following the note, for the abutment of the suicide. Sukhana had recently been arrested by Delhi police in a fraud case of Rs 3500,000 and had been brought to the city for further investigation and was staying in the hotel with the police. A case of negligence has been filed against three members of the Delhi police team.