Suicides continue among indian security personnel

[Jana]

CRPF sub-inspector commits suicide in J&K

Deepak Khajuria

Jammu, January 23, 2007
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1909692,0006.htm

Two days after a BSF jawan committed suicide by shooting himself with his service weapon at Srinagar, a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Sub-Inspector shot himself at high security Maulana Azad Stadium in Jammu on Tuesday afternoon.

The deceased SI has been identified as Babu Lal of A-Company of CRPF's 68 Battalion, resident of Revari Haryana.

"Babu Lal was in his tent not in uniform, when he shot himself with his service weapon," SHO police station Nowabad said under whose jurisdiction the stadium falls.

"The Jammu's MA stadium, which has been prepared for the Republic Day function is a high security zone and extra deployment of security have been called, so after hearing the gun shot many police and CRPF personnel started running towards the spot and found the deceased in a pool of blood," police said.

"The body of the SI was immediately shifted to the mortuary of the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMC&H) Jammu but the reasons behind the incident are not yet known and a case under section 174 RPC (Inquest Proceedings) has been registered," the area police added.

The stress in uniform is on increase in Jammu and Kashmir from last over a year and several persons related to uniform forces including CRPF, BSF and Army committed suicide with their service weapons at duty hours or at their official accommodations.

Earlier, in the intervening night of December 31, 2006 and January 1, 2007, Army personnel killed his colleague at Kaluchak in Jammu outskirts by shooting him over a petty matter.

On December 1, 2006 a Lieutenant Colonel of the Army committed suicide by shooting himself with his service weapon at Mahore in Udhampur. This was the first incident of its kind in which an army officer of the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in Jammu and Kashmir had committed suicide.

A similar incident of suicide by a female 25-year-old Army Lieutenant Sushmita Chakraborthy of Bhopal occurred on June 16, 2006 when she shot herself at Udhampur, where she was posted in the officer's mess of the 5071 Army Service Corps (ASC).

A postgraduate in Chemistry, Sushmita was reportedly not happy with her job. Lower rank Army personnel and security forces mostly commit suicide after denial of leave applications. However, in case of the high rung officers the reasons were not found but reports suggest they were not satisfied with their jobs.

The stress among the security personnel at times also became security problem at VIP places like on April 02, 2006. After apparently being denied leave, a CRPF soldier identified as Anand Kumar Singh opened indiscriminate fire on his colleagues at the Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad's official residence at Jammu, killing three. The dead included company commander and two head constables of CRPF. The accused soldier was later arrested.

Later on April 20, 2006, an Inspector, Chander Paul (40) of Bulandshaher in Uttar Pradesh of the Border Security Force (BSF) committed suicide by hanging himself in his room inside a training centre at Srinagar.

On January 25, 2006, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) constable Avtar Chand gunned down four of his colleagues injuring one critically inside a heavily guarded CRPF (96 Battalion) camp housed in Firdous Cinema in downtown Srinagar. After entering into a verbal brawl with one of his colleagues, Avtar reportedly went berserk and opened fire.

He was later overpowered and arrested. As stress in uniform has become an official truth, various security agencies in Jammu and Kashmir have now engaged counsellors and psychologists as stress buster for their officers and security personnel. Besides the use of meditation, body exercises and yoga are also experimented.

[malaymishra123]

Damn! :(

Give raise the Armed Forces salaries and give them more leaves!

[Jana]

Originally Posted by malaymishra123

Damn! :(

Give raise the Armed Forces salaries and give them more leaves!

i hope if the Indian government listens to ur suggestion. why dont Indians fowards sugestions in this regard to the government as official committees are dump always.

this is realy disturbing that even a female soldier shot herself dead.

[salman77]

Landmine blast kills three policemen in Kashmir

A landmine planted by the freedom fighter group in Indian Kashmir exploded under a police minibus on Tuesday, killing three policemen and wounding five, police said, in new violence ahead of India's Republic Day.

Security has been stepped up in the restive state of Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of India ahead of Republic Day on Jan. 26, the day the country adopted its republican constitution in 1950.

'It was a powerful landmine explosion,' a police officer told Reuters.

Tuesday's attack took place in Pulwama district, 35 km (20 miles) south of Kashmir's summer capital, Srinagar, and a day after suspected Muslim separatists threw a grenade at a police patrol but missed, wounding 13 people at a nearby bus stand.

Earlier on Tuesday, a soldier was wounded when militants threw a grenade at a security bunker in northern Kashmir, police said.

Kashmir's biggest freedom fighter group Hizbul Mujahideen called newspaper offices in Srinagar and said it had carried out both attacks.

Militant groups in Kashmir and in other parts of India often step up violence on and around the Republic Day celebrations to highlight their various causes.

Hizbul Mujahideen, as well as political separatist groups, have called a general strike in Kashmir on Jan. 26 in Kashmir to mark what they call 'a black day'.

'The strike will convey to the world that the people of Kashmir will take their struggle to its logical conclusion,' Kashmir's main separatist alliance, the All Parties Hurriyat (Freedom) Conference, said in a statement on Monday.

Officials say more than 40,000 people have been killed in Kashmir in the 17-year Muslim separatist revolt against Indian rule. Human rights groups put the toll at around 60,000 dead or missing.