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| Muslim jawan of Sikh regiment ends life | | | Jammu, Aug 13: A jawan of Sikh Regiment committed suicide by shooting himself with his service weapon at Balra, Bhaderwah, on monday.
According to offical sources, he was identified Sulemaan Khan, S/o Sher Khan, resident of Maler Kotla in Punjab and was posted with 152 TA (Sikh) at Balra, Bhaderwah camp.
Sources said that deceased shot himself with his Insas rifle around 8:15 am, this morning.
He was on sentry duty when he committed suicide. He fired two shots at his neck and head killing himself on the spot. The body was shifted to Hospital postmortem.
According to Defence spokesman, Col Goswami told KIP that army authorities have ordered a Court of Inquiry to know the circumstances which led the solider to commit suicide.
Suicide by Naik Suleman Khan inside of his office located on the outskirts of Bhaderwah today morning has once again triggered a fresh round of debate, "whether the worlds second largest army is really doing enough to curb and fight the menacing trend where soldiers are committing suicide and turning their guns on their colleagues, themselves and or it is simply earning a bad reputation because soldiers are finding it difficult to fine tune twin responsibilities of handling domestic as well as work pressure failing which they are killing themselves frequently".
It also brings us to the question, "whether the jawans facing stress related disorders are fit enough to guard frontiers of the nation and participate in the counter insurgency operations or should medical succor be extended to them on war footing in order to provide them with the opportunity to recoup and revitalize at the earliest to arrest the constantly rising trend".
These and several other questions continue to stump many senior army officers responsible for commanding counter insurgency operations leading a pack of 'sick minds' especially when half hearted approach has been adopted by the top army brass to address the serious issue.
A senior doctor at the military hospital in Jammu told this reporter , There are only 37 counsellors to look after a strength of 3.37 lakh soldiers in Jammu and Kashmir, raising a question mark on the utility of the counselors.
According to a senior army officer who had earlier commanded a unit in Jammu and Kashmir ,that "No one is really concerned about the well being of the jawan and his working conditions". His superior officers are responsible for giving him stress as they feel the pinch from their own superiors. So instead of punishing the immediate superior officer the man sitting at the top should be held accountable for every single mishap in the unit and things will fall in line.
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