Jamshedpur, April 18: A sub-inspector of Jharkhand Armed Police (JAP) shot himself from an assault rifle in the JAP’s barrack located in Ghurabandha police station premises in Ghatshila sub-division on Saturday morning.
The victim was identified as Puran Chandra Munda. He was depressed as his daughter was stuck up in Kota during the lockdown enforced in view of coronavirus.
The injured was rushed to Tata Main Hospital, about an hour-long drive from the scene, where he is undergoing treatment.
East Singhbhum (rural) superintendent of police, Piyush Pandey said the injured is posted at the JAP-V at Ghurabandha and the incident took place at the JAP’s barrack on Saturday.
” We are really shocked to see his behaviour. As per initial probe Munda has shot himself while making an abortive bid on his life by firing from his AK 47 assault rifle. We have recovered four empty cartridges from the spot. We do not know how many of the shots had pierced his body,” said Pandey.
The SP (Rural) said that the injured sub-inspector had carried out his duty till 6 am today and was taking rest at the barrack as suddenly he took this drastic step.
” We came to know that Munda’s daughter is stuck in Kota where she had gone for coaching while preparing for the entrance examination of an engineering course. Ever since the lockdown was declared Munda was disturbed and would share his feelings among his fellow officials, but no one had imagined that he would take such a drastic step,” said the senior police officer.
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