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| Soldier commits suicide | | | Early Times Report
Rajouri, May 29 : Among increasing incidents of suicides / fratricides by the personnel of security forces in Rajouri and Poonch district, young soldier has committed suicide at a sentry post in the heart of Rajouri city in the wee hours today.
The soldier has been identified as Satish Kumar of village Sharpur Vichwa in Uttrakhand state and was 22 years old with 15 months of service in 198 Field regiment stationed at Rajouri.
Police said that at about 6 am in the morning the soldier committed suicided by shooting himself dead with his official weapon INSAS gun at a sentry post.
Sources said that the deceased was manning one of the security posts of the unit headquarters near highly protected DC colony in the heart of Rajouri city. At about 5.40 am his colleague left the post to awake the next guards of the post who have to resume their duties at 6 am.
As another soldier left the post the deceased opened burst at his chin and the bullets after piercing head came out resulting instant death of Satish.
The matter was reported to the police and a police party rushed to the unit and after legal formalities including recording of the statements and seizure of the weapon brought the body to nearby district hospital for postmortem.
Just three days ago a Naik over some dispute with his colleagues gunned down a JCO and Havildar at a forward post in Diwar area in Poonch district.
Naik Darshan Lal of 17 JAK Rifles in a fit of rage after a dispute with Ranjodh Singh killed him and when Subedar tried to snatch the gun he was also shot dead by the Naik before killing him self.
Increasing fratricides and suicides by the security personnel have worried the higher authorities and several steps like in the past have been taken to ease the long duty hours and deployment in the hostile conditions, to sanction leaves at the earliest so that the soldiers can meet their families etc. Police has started inquest proceedings under section 174CrPC to find out the reason behind this extreme step. |
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