Overview
- Jaswinder Singh, posted in Jammu and Kashmir and on leave, was picked up from his Jammu home on March 3 in a drug case.
- Police say his condition worsened during interrogation and he died during treatment in a hospital on Friday night.
- A postmortem was conducted at Amritsar Civil Hospital on Saturday, and authorities are awaiting the autopsy report.
- The Punjab Human Rights Organisation called for a judicial probe under a sitting high court judge and for magistrate-supervised videography of the autopsy.
- Relatives protested at the post-mortem house in Amritsar and in Jammu, while NCB officials have not publicly responded.