Harassment by seniors killed SI

Harassment by seniors seems to have forced CISF sub inspector Swati Chauhan to commit suicide.

She had told her friends that she was fed up with the job and her senior colleagues at the Pune airport.

Swati took leave and came to Hyderabad to see her cousin to escape the ill treatment, her father Jayaprakash told the police from Swati’s village in UP on Wednesday.

“Swati had told her friends that she did not like her job. She was troubled by the ill treatment she faced at the workplace. She was going through a difficult time, and had told her friends about it,” said a police official.

Hailing from a village in the Moradabad district of UP, Swati had to struggle her way up. But she faced harassment at the hands of seniors.

It is not clear which senior officials are responsible for her death. Her father also could not give much information to the police as Swati had not told him specific names.

The Jawaharnagar police investigating the case says that the absence of a suicide note makes it difficult for them to understand what exactly went wrong at Pune.

“Her parents live in Moradabad and they knew only a little about her professional life. We need to question her close friends for details,” an official said.

Swati had completed training in 2016 and was posted with the ASG Wing at the Pune airport. She took leave from February 24 to March 2 saying that she was going to Hyderabad to meet her cousin Neelima Singh. Swati hanged herself inside Neelima’s room at the National Industrial Security Academy (NISA) quarters on the campus.