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Mystery shrouds SI’s suicide, beautician’s death
A police sub-inspector allegedly committed suicide on Wednesday by shooting himself with his service weapon in Siddipet district, the police said. This is the second such incident at the same police station as another sub-inspector had ended his life by shooting himself in August, last year.
Hyderabad: A police sub-inspector allegedly committed suicide on Wednesday by shooting himself with his service weapon in Siddipet district, the police said. This is the second such incident at the same police station as another sub-inspector had ended his life by shooting himself in August, last year.
Highlights:
- His predecessor V Ramakrishna Reddy too took his life in August last year
- Earlier Dubbaka's police sub-inspector G Chittibabu committed suicide after shooting dead his wife
P Prabhakar Reddy (32), a Sub-Inspector at the Kuknoorpally police station, was found lying dead on a chair at his house in the government quarters. The police suspect that he killed himself between 12.45 pm and 1 pm. "Prabhakar was found dead with bullet injuries in his head.
He was a 2012-batch SI and had taken over as the Kuknoorpally SI after his predecessor V Ramakrishna Reddy (45) shot himself with his service revolver," said a police source. It was not clear what drove Prabhakar to take the extreme step, the source said, adding that the body was sent for a post-mortem. Siddipet Police Commissioner V Shiva Kumar and other senior police officers have rushed to the spot. Director General of Police (DGP) Anurag Sharma has ordered an inquiry into the incident.
"An inquiry has been ordered...senior police officers are investigating the incident...they are looking at all the possible aspects," Sharma said. In August 2016, the then Kukunoorpally SI, V Ramakrishna Reddy, had committed suicide over alleged harassment by Deputy Superintendent of Police Sridhar Goud and other officers. In a purported suicide note, Reddy had held Goud and others responsible for his death. In another incident in Siddipet district, Dubbaka's police sub-inspector G Chittibabu shot dead his wife before killing himself with the same service weapon in March.
The DGP appointed Additional Director General of Police Gopi Krishna to inquire into the incident.Meanwhile, the Sub-Inspectors suicide took a new turn with two suspects in the suspicious death of beautician A Vijayalakshmi aka Sirisha, told the police that they had gone to Kukunoorpally on Monday along with the beautician. He reportedly told the police that they had liquor with Sub-Inspector Prabhakar Reddy.
Police sources said Rajiv had allegedly been maintaining affairs with Sirisha and another woman Tejaswini. He wanted to put an end to the affair with Sirisha since Tejaswini warned him that she would lodge a complaint against him if he did not marry her.
However, Sirisha was in no mood to end her relationship with Rajiv due to which the latter took her to Kukunoorpally for police mark counseling. Prabhakar Reddy is said to have been rude to Sirisha at his residential quarters while trying to compel her to end the relationship with Rajiv, police sources said.
