Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 3: An Army Jawan allegedly committed suicide in Nagrota area of city outskirts.
“The deceased was identified as Prijesh M (33) son of Babu Kumar, resident of Kerala,” a police official said. He said the Army Jawan was found hanging yesterday at about 2 PM in his residential quarter inside 16 Core Nagrota Battalion.
According to the official, the wife of the Prijesh with the help of her neighbours immediately rushed him to Military Hospital, Satwari, where he succumbed today. “The body of the deceased was shifted to Government Medical College and Hospital Jammu for postmortem while Nagrota police had initiated inquest proceeding under 174 CrPC in this connection,” he added.