Two policemen shoot themselves to death in Chhattisgarh

Two policemen have allegedly committed suicide in Chhattisgarh's Bastar district in separate incidents. Both of them shot themselves dead with their respective service guns.

Raipur: Two police constables allegedly committed suicide in different districts of Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Bastar division on Sunday.

In the first incident, police constable Vinod Porte (32) allegedly shot himself with an SLR rifle in Pamed police station of Bijapur district. At the time of the incident, Porte was on security duty at the police station, located in a Naxal- stronghold around 450 km from Raipur.

According to reports, the constable was battling mental stress and was a native of Korba district.

Bijapur SP Kamlochan Kashyap told ETV Bharat, "Police constable, identified as Vinod Porte shot himself on Saturday afternoon at around 12 pm. His body has been sent for post-mortem and will be sent to his native village after the autopsy is completed."

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In another incident, constable Dinesh Verma allegedly shot himself with his service rifle around 8.50 am on Sunday. Verma belonged to the 4th battalion of the Chhattisgarh Armed Forces (CAF) and he reportedly shot himself at his unit camp in Pushpal police station in Sukma district.

When Verma's colleagues heard gunshots from his barrack, they rushed to the place and found him lying in a pool of blood. He was immediately rushed to a local hospital where he was declared brought dead.

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Police officials reached the incident spot after receiving the news.

According to information, Verma had returned from home on November 26 and allegedly shot himself in his unit camp today morning.

Additional Police officer Sunil Sharma said, "Dinesh Verma, belonging to the 4th battalion of CAF shot himself at 8.50 am today. He had fired six rounds from his service rifle.

However, the reasons behind the extreme step taken by the two policemen were yet to be ascertained.

With PTI inputs