Twenty-nine-year-old IPS officer K. Sasi Kumar allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his service revolver inside his office chambers at Paderu in Vizag Agency on Thursday morning.
Twenty-nine-year-old IPS officer K. Sasi Kumar allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his service revolver inside his office chambers at Paderu in Vizag Agency on Thursday morning.
Kumar, a 2012-batch IPS officer from Tamil Nadu, was posted as assistant superintendent of police at Paderu in January 2016.
The police, meanwhile, claimed that his revolver accidentally went off when the ASP was checking the firearm, and the bullet hit his right temple.
The sound of the firearm discharging was heard from the ASP’s chambers at around 6 am on Thursday and the sentry on duty rushed in to check. He found Kumar lying in a pool of blood beside his service weapon.
The ASP was rushed to a local hospital where he succumbed to his injury. This was Kumar’s third posting after a stint as ASP (Greyhounds) and ASP, Allagadda in Kurnool district. SP (Visakha Rural) Rahul Dev Sharma said that they were not sure whether it was accidental or intentional.
Few police sources, however, on condition of anonymity said that it appeared to be a case of suicide but there was no clarity on it yet.
Apparently a suicide note was also recovered from the spot but official sources are not clarifying.
Kumar was a 2008 batch Engineering graduate (BE, Electronics) from Anna University. His father Mr Kuppu Swamy is a farmer and her mother Ms Mylammal is a housewife. He was born and brought up in the Satyamangalam area of Coimbatore and his parents currently live at Rangasamudram in Erode district of Tamil Nadu.
Later in the day his body was shifted to KG Hospital in Vizag for post-mortem and his family informed.
District collector N. Yuvaraj, commissioner of police T. Yoganand and other IAS and IPS officers paid homage to the officer at KG Hospital.
Refusing to disclose further details, Mr Rahul Dev Sharma said that the case had been handed over to the CID soon after the incident. The CID team visited the spot for collecting evidence. The ASP’s family members arrived on Thursday evening and the body is expected to be flown to his home town on Friday morning.
