India, Nov. 6 -- Rohtak Taking a note of dereliction of duty, Hansi superintendent of police (SP) Vinod Kumar has suspended five personnel of the Hansi CIA-1 team for alleged negligence in monitoring an accused who died by suicide while in their custody in a hotel in Odisha.

The suspended officers included probationary sub-inspector (SI) Kapil Kumar, SI Sammat, exemptee head constables Jogender Singh and Arjun Singh, and constable Mukesh Kumar.

According to information, a 22-year-old man from Odisha, who was taken on police remand by a Haryana Police team in connection with a Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) case, was found dead at a hotel in Malkangiri town on October 26.

The team had gone to Odisha to arrest the main...