A police constable posted with Ratibad police station committed suicide by hanging from the ceiling at Neelbad locality on Monday. Wife of the deceased has claimed that he used to remain depressed for the past few days.
According to the police, the victim Naveen Mishra was found hanging by his wife and was rushed to Sharda hospital where he was declared dead in the afternoon on Monday. The deceased is survived by his wife and two daughters. Naveen’s wife claimed that he used to remain depressed for the past few days and had not attended office for the past four days. She expressed ignorance over the reason behind the depression of her husband. At around 1 pm when Naveen’s wife returned from her parents’ house found him hanging.
In charge of Ratibad police station Punendra Singh said that the deceased at the start of his tenure was posted at Indore and later he was transferred to Kamla Nagar police station and presently he was posted with Ratibad police station.
During the investigation, no reason was found behind the extreme step taken by the deceased and it was also found that during his tenure in Indore an accused escaped which was under his custody but it could not be ascertained that the deceased committed suicide influenced by the incident and it would be searched that any action over the completion of the departmental enquiry into the matter was scheduled.
After the preliminary investigation the body was sent for the post mortem and a case under section 174 of the CrPC was registered and started further investigation.