JAMMU: A 25-year-old man on motorcycle died after a Chinese kite-string, locally known as Gattu, slit his throat in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, police officials said.
The sale and use of the Chinese kite-string or ‘Manja’ is banned by the authorities and several shopkeepers were arrested in recent past across Jammu for clandestinely dealing with the material.
Rajinder Kumar, a resident of Seen Brahmana village, was moving towards Rehambal from Udhampur when his throat was slit open by the banned thread near Ghari village around 4:30 pm, the officials said.
They said some commuters shifted him to government medical college hospital Udhampur, where doctors declared him dead, the officials said.
The officials said Police have registered a case in this connection and further investigation is on to identify the culprits and bring them to book. –(PTI)
