EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 9: A magisterial probe was today ordered into the death of a gambler, who died last night while trying to run during a police raid in Kishtwar town.
Agitated over the gambler Devi Dass’s death, people held a demonstration in Kishtwar town today.
They demanded a probe into the incident and ex-gratia for the family of the deceased.
They, however, dispersed peacefully after the deputy commissioner, who along with senior police officers visited the spot, announced a magisterial probe into the incident, according to official sources. He asked authorities concerned to submit the report in two-weeks, the sources added.
Dass died last evening when police, on a tip-off, raided a building and nabbed five gamblers along with Rs 22,600.
He gave a slip to police and got seriously injured when he jumped from the building and fell into a ditch.
He died later on way to the Goverment Medical College Hospital, Jammu.
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