The IPS officers of the State have expressed deep condolence over the untimely death of police inspector Dilip Kumar Sahoo, who attained martyrdom last week in Keonjhar district.
Sahoo, the Inspector-in-charge (IIC) of local Ghatagaon police station, died on duty after he was fired at by some dacoits, whom he was chasing on Saturday evening.
“Sahoo sacrificed his life at the highest altar of duty and attained martyrdom.
His remarkable sense of duty, indomitable courage and unflinching commitment to profession will set examples to a generation of police
officers,” said a Press release issued here by the IPS
association on Monday.
Born in 1977 in Kalahandi district, Sahoo had joined the State police department in 2005 as a sub inspector and served in the left wing extremist affected districts of Gajapati and Nuapada with distinction before being promoted to the rank of inspector of police last year.
He was posted as IIC Gahatagaon police only on January 14 last.
The release issued by its honorary secretary of the IPS body Satyajit Mohanty said: “In Sahoo’s death, the Odisha police have lost an illustrious member”.
The Association has also requested the State Government to adequately compensate the survivors of Sahoo by providing a job and house to his widow and bear the educational expenses of his child.