Sr IPS officer tries to end life in Manipur

The additional director general of police incharge of law and order in trouble-torn Manipur, Arvind Kumar, allegedly shot himself with his service revolver on Saturday.

He was shifted to a hospital where his conditional was stated to be very critical.

Mr Kumar, a 1993 Bihar cadre IPS officer, had served for a long time in the Intelligence Bureau and was on deputation in Manipur.

Though, everyone was tight-lipped about the incident, security sources said that he shot himself in his official quarter at 2nd Manipur Rifles Complex in Imphal. He was taken to a private hospital for treatment in the state capital.

The top brass of the state police and officials, including chief secretary J Suresh Babu, was at the hospital where Mr Kumar is being treated.

The chief secretary told reporters that Mr Kumar’s condition is serious but he is responding to the treatment and has also spoken to the doctors. “He will be sent to Delhi, once his condition improves,” Mr Babu said.

The incident has come close on the heels of a sworn affidavit of additional Superintendent of Police of the state Narcotics and Affairs of Border Bureau (NAB) accusing Manipur chief minister N. Biren Singh and a top state BJP leader allegedly putting pressure on the department to drop the case against a person accused in a drug seizure raid which took place in June 2018.

The accusation has come in the form of a sworn affidavit of an Additional Superin-tendent of Police, NAB, Thounaojam Brinda filed in Imphal High Court on July 13. The police had put the value of confiscated illegal narcotics and cash at more than `28 crore.

According to affidavit filed in the high court, the prime accused in the case, Lhukhosei Zou, was considered kingpin of the drugs cartel and was also a local BJP leader in Chandel district.