JK man fakes own death to reach home in ambulance

Seeking to avoid the nationwide lockdown, a 60-year-old man in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district faked his own death to reach his home in an ambulance. Before reaching their destination, a police naka party intercepted the ambulance and did not find any dead body inside the ambulance.

Jammu: A man faked his death to reach home in an ambulance in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district during the nationwide lockdown, according to officials.

Hakam Din was admitted to Government Medical College hospital last week due to an injury.

After he was discharged, he conspired with three others and forged a certificate of his death to travel in a private ambulance, officials said.

However, when they were a few kms short of their destination, a police naka party intercepted them at Buffliaz and checked the ambulance only to find there was no body inside it.

Later, police registered a case against them and sent all of them to a quarantine facility for 14 days.

(PTI Report)