Ludhiana, June 8 -- A 70-year-old retired Punjab Police assistant sub-inspector (ASI) reportedly died by suicide by hanging himself from an iron rod on the roof of his house here on Sunday. Police have booked his two sons, who are in their thirties, for abetment to suicide after recovering a suicide note in which the deceased reportedly held them responsible for driving him to take the extreme step.

The Jamalpur police on Sunday registered an FIR against Lovepreet Singh and Harpreet Singh, residents of Patti in Tarn Taran district, on the basis of the suicide note and a complaint lodged by the deceased's wife, Kiran Devi. The accused are the victim's sons from his first marriage.

In her complaint, Kiran Devi, in her forties, told police...