Preliminary probe reveals accused is a drug addict JAIPUR: A 28-year-old yoga instructor and a drug addict ran out of a psychiatric hospital in the city on Friday and barged into a nearby house and killed a seven-year-old boy.A resident of Rewari in Haryana , the accused, Ashley Lawrence alias Ashish, fled the hospital, where he was to meet a doctor, and entered a house above a nearby temple in Adarsh Nagar. He then slit the throat of a minor who was in the house using a kitchen knife which he picked up from the house itself.Ashish's family has claimed that he is mentally unstable. However, the police have not found any previous medical reports to substantiate the family's claims. The hospital also has a deaddiction wing and the police suspect that he might have been brought there on Friday because of his drug addiction.Eyewitnesses had heard him enquire about an exorcist who could drive away evil spirits from him before he entered the house, where the minor, identified as Aditya, lived with his mother and maternal uncle's family. At the time of the incident, he was playing outside the house while his aunt was inside."Aditya's aunt Sarita was washing in the washroom. She was startled when Ashely appeared in front of her and asked 'Bhoot kaun utarta hai' (who drives out evil spirits). The woman screamed for help and locked herself in the washroom", said ACP (Adarsh Nagar) Pushpendra Singh.“Aditya then came rushing in. The accused took the kid into the adjacent bathroom, locked the door from inside and slit his throat,” said ACP (Adarsh Nagar) Pushpendra Singh. He said that preliminary investigations have revealed that Ashish is a drug addict.Hearing Sarita’s cries for help, Devrat Sharma, the guardian of the temple rushed upstairs. “I found the accused leap out of the bathroom. He tried to throw me from the balcony. He attacked me and pushed me into the bed, but I caught hold of his long hair and called out to others, who had rushed upstairs, to alert the cops,” he said.The police and relatives later found Aditya dead on threshold of the bathroom. The victim was a native of Altar district. His mother had recently got a government job at the municipal corporation on disability quota.Ashley had come to Jaipur from Rewari at 10am on Friday with his father in their car to meet a psychiatrist at a government hospital in Adarsh Nagar. “I was at the patient registration desk, when I turned around I found that my son had fled,” Ashley’s father Hansraj told TOI.Even while Hansraj was looking around for his son, Ashley had entered Saket Colony which is barely a few metres away from the hospital and Adarsh Nagar police station.“He was acting hyper and something must have triggered the incident. But we have not come across anything which could indicate that he was suffering from some mental illness,’’ an official said.

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