Kanpur cop who took poison dies

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LUCKNOW: A 2014 BATCH OFFICER, SURENDRA DAS, 30, HAD TAKEN OVER AS SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, KANPUR (EAST) LAST MONTH

Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Surendra Das, who was battling for life for the last four days after consuming a pesticide in an alleged suicide bid, died at Kanpur’s Regency hospital on Sunday afternoon, police said.

A 2014 batch officer, Das, 30, had taken over as superintendent of police, Kanpur (east) last month. On Wednesday (September 5), his wife, Raveena Singh, who is a doctor, found froth oozing out from his mouth when she woke up at about 5 am and rushed him to UHM hospital.

Later, he was shifted to a private hospital from where he was referred to Regency hospital, where he was continuously on life support and in a critical condition.

Doctors suspect Das had consumed Celphos, a pesticide, which affected his entire body. They said Das underwent multiple operations but his condition worsened on Saturday when blood circulation in some parts of his body stopped. He breathed his last at 12.19 pm on Sunday.

While searching his room on Wednesday in the presence of the officer’s mother Indu Devi and brother Narendra Das, the forensic team had found a torn suicide note on Wednesday.

ADG, Kanpur zone, Avinash Chandra said Das had not blamed anyone in the suicide note.