NEW DELHI: On Sunday, the police reported that a 33-year-old man died in northeast Delhi’s Gokalpuri region after purportedly dousing himself in petrol and igniting a fire when bank employees arrived to seal and repossess his home on court orders. The man, Kapil Kumar, succumbed to injuries in the early hours of Sunday, they said. On Friday, court staff along with bank officials arrived at northeast Gokalpuri police station and provided a court order seeking police assistance to take possession of a property in the locality, they added. According to the police, on reaching the site, the staff concerned in the presence of police started their work in accordance with the court’s direction. As the process of confiscation and sealing was underway to get possession of the house for which the loan was not repaid to bank, the proprietor of Vanshika Collections, Kapil Kumar, who was at a distance from his property, poured petrol over him and set himself afire. The police personnel extinguished the fire by putting a blanket, a senior police officer said. The police staff took him to GTB Hospital, he said. However, around 3.40am on Sunday, the hospital informed them that the man had died. The body was handed over to the family members of Kapil Kumar after post-mortem, the officer added. “We have registered a case under section 306 (abetment of suicide) of the Indian Penal Code at Gokalpuri police station and the investigation is underway,” he said.(With inputs from PTI)
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