Gondi police station chief shoots self

  • | Saturday | 16th February, 2019

AURANGABAD: An assistant police inspector heading the Gondi police station in neighbouring Jalna district committed suicide by shooting in the head with his service pistol on Friday.The incident happened at the official quarters, situated next to the police station, around 11 am. Police have said that the PSI was under pressure after a youth had filed a complaint against him. "It is a case of suicide. "Senior police officers said the API was known to be a cool-headed man. He remained in the chamber till around 11 am and left for home.

AURANGABAD: An assistant police inspector heading the Gondi police station in neighbouring Jalna district committed suicide by shooting in the head with his service pistol on Friday.The incident happened at the official quarters, situated next to the police station, around 11 am. A probe has been ordered to find out the reasons behind the 40-year-old API taking the extreme step.The deceased, Anil Parjane, hailing from Khalapuri village of Shirur in Beed district, was posted at the police station around a year back.Parjane's wife and minor kid were at home at the time of the incident. Hearing her cries for help, neighbours rushed to the spot only to find the officer in a pool of blood.Soon after the incident, senior police officers including superintendent of police S Chaitanya and range special IG Prakash Mutyal rushed to Gondi, which is on the Jalna-Beed border.His body was shifted to the Government Medical College and Hospital in Aurangabad, where an in-camera autopsy was carried out.Sources at the GMCH said the bullet entered his skull from the right temple, before making way from the other side."It is a case of suicide. We have registered a case of accidental death and ordered a high-level probe in to incident," Chaitanya told TOI.The officer said that prima facie it appears that there were no professional reasons that forced the API to take the extreme step but an investigation is under way to ascertain the exact reason.Sources at the Gondi police station said that the officer appeared to be quiet when he reached the police station on Friday morning and nobody knows what prompted him to head to his official quarters.Gondi PSO Vilas Waghmare, who was on duty on Friday morning, told TOI, "The officer came to the police station around 9 am and signed some chargesheets. He remained in the chamber till around 11 am and left for home."Senior police officers said the API was known to be a cool-headed man. "Efforts are on to find if he has left any suicide note, who was the last person he spoke to over phone, what prompted him to go home from police station and so on," said an officer with the local crime branch.The PSI was perturbed by the fact that in a theft case he was investigating, he was facing allegations of joining hands with the accused and even allegedly helping the accused escape law.Friday's was the second incident of an officer serving in Jalna district committing suicide using the service pistol in the last three years.On September 17, 2016, PSI Prabhakar Rustamrao Pathade, who was attached to the taluka police station of Jalna city, committed suicide in a similar manner. Police have said that the PSI was under pressure after a youth had filed a complaint against him.

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