The Haryana Police has booked Punjab’s former director general of police Mohammad Mustafa and his wife Razia Sultana, a former minister, for allegedly murdering their son Aqil Akhtar, 35, an official Tuesday said. Akhtar’s wife and sister have also been booked, the official said, adding a Special Investigation Team (SIT) has been formed to look into the case.

Mustafa denied the allegations against him and the family members saying his son was a drug addict for the past 18 years, turned “psychotic”, and developed severe mental illness. “He died after injecting buprenorphine in overdose as per the initial police probe. For 18 years since 2007, we were getting him treated for addiction including at PGIMER Chandigarh but he would relapse. He had even set our house on fire once ,” Mustafa sa

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