2 sub-inspectors shoot themselves dead in Orai and Sonbhadra

KANPUR/VARANASI : Two sub-inspectors shot themselves dead in separate incidents in Orai and Sonbhadra districts of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday, police said.

In Orai, sub-inspector Mohit Dubey, 28, who was posted with the Government Railway Police, allegedly turned the gun on himself in the police station barrack, police said. In his dying declaration to a senior police officer, Dubey hinted at family related issues being the reason for the suicide, police said.

Superintendent of police, Jalaun, Arvind Chaturvedi said Dubey was found in the barrack with his service revolver nearby. He was rushed to a local hospital and then to Kanpur, but he died. The police are investigating how the other police constables sleeping nearby did not hear the gun shot, a person familiar with the matter said. The other constables, who were inside the barrack at the time of the incident, were being questioned, said the police.

Dubey was found in a pool of blood when a constable Pavan Shivhare was sent to call him for a security check of the Pushpak Express, which was about to arrive in Orai. Station house officer, GRP, Brij Mohan Saini had sent Shivhare to the barrack, police sources said. Dubey was taken to the civil hospital where SP GRP Pratap Narayan Mishra recorded his statement. Doctors, who treated him in the emergency wing, told officials the policeman was drunk. In Sonbhadra, sub-inspector Sujeet Mishra shot himself dead at a barrack in the Kotwali police station area early on Tuesday, police said. Additional superintendent of police Awadhesh Kumar said it was not known why Mishra took his own life. A probe will be conducted to find the reason, Kumar said. Another sub-inspector Shamsher Yadav said he heard a gunshot in the barrack and went there with other policemen only to find Mishra lying in a pool of blood. Mishra had shot himself in the temple lobe with his service revolver, Yadav said.

Police rushed him to the district hospital where he died during treatment. Police said Mishra, resident of Nawabganj area in Prayagraj district, joined the police force in 2015. He lived in the barracks of the Kotwali police station.