Amritsar, March 23 -- A BSF jawan, arrested recently from Jammu, died in the custody of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), police said on Sunday. Posted in Jammu and Kashmir, deceased Jaswinder Singh had been on leave when he was arrested in a drug case from his Jammu residence on March 3.

During the interrogation, his health deteriorated, officials said. He died during treatment in a hospital on Friday night. A postmortem examination was conducted at the Amritsar civil hospital on Saturday. Officials said they were waiting for the autopsy report.

Jagjit Singh, station house officer (SHO) of Maqboolpura police station, said, "He was brought for questioning in connection with a case being investigated by the NCB. According to them, his ...