A former DIG and four others were sentenced to eight-year imprisonment by a local-court in a 2004 case in which a family of five had committed suicide, blaming the accused for the extreme-step. A serving DSP of the Punjab Police was also sentenced to four-years in jail. The court of Additional-District-Sessions-Judge Sandeep Singh Bajwa also slapped fine ranging from Rs.10,000 to Rs.20,000 on them.