Woman who made an allegation against a senior IPS officer of State of destroying her married life committed suicide by consuming poison in Dhamtari on Friday. The woman was residing in a temple premises near her home for past couple of days after bank officials had taken possession of her house because of non-payment of debt.
Keeping in view that the matter is related to a high profile police official, an enquiry team headed by a Deputy Superintendent of Police has been constituted to probe the matter. Police have also carried out complete a videography of the crime scene. The post mortem of the deceased has also been withheld for her brother to arrive on Saturday. Post-mortem will be performed in his presence.
Superintendent of Police, Dhamtari Rajnesh Singh informed that deceased Savita Khandelwal was facing mentally illness.
After her Amaltas Colony based house was confiscated by the bank, she was living in the temple premises, near her house and surviving on the food served by neighbours. She was a divorcee and her son too had left her to live with his father, he informed.
Regarding disturbance in the married life of the decease for alleged extra marital affair with a senior police official, the deceased had even approached the Women's Commission, said SP. Much detail is not available as it was an old case, he adds.
"No suicide note has been recovered from the incident site. Some cash and a bottle of poison was only recovered from her purse there", the official informed.
Accepting that the matter was sensitive, the SP said he had ordered to preserve the body of the deceased till her brother reaches the town on Saturday.
Videography of post mortem would also be conducted and senior doctors had been assigned the job, he further stated.