Kerameri Sub-Inspector of Police Kashameni Sridhar, aged 27 years, committed suicide on Tuesday morning by shooting himself with his service revolver.
The maid servant of the unmarried officer heard the gun shot being fired and found him collapsed in a pool of blood at his residential quarter on the police station campus.
The young police officer becomes the fourth Sub-Inspector in Telangana to have committed suicide in recent weeks. And like the others, the reason for the latest suicide is being rumoured to be harassment by a superior officer.
Sridhar was the second SI in Adilabad district to have committed suicide, the first incident having happened on December 1, 2011 when Mudhole SI Md. Tajuddin, aged 26 years, had shot himself dead with his service revolver, also in his residential quarter. While Tajuddin had not completed only five days of his tenure as SI, Sridhar had taken charge just three days ago.
A suicide note left behind by the deceased said he was taking the extreme step owing to depression. Mancherial Assistant Superintendent of Police S.M. Vijay Kumar told The Hindu that the cause of depression is not yet known.
“We will get into the bottom of the issue soon,” he said. Investigation into the case has started.
The police officer becomes the fourth SI in State to have committed suicide in recent weeks
