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Mumbai: Head constable shoots self in Tulinj police station at Nalasopara

Updated on: 24 December,2020 01:24 PM IST  |  Mumbai
Diwakar Sharma | diwakar.sharma@mid-day.com

The cop shot himself in the head with his service gun inside the cabin of a police inspector

Mumbai: Head constable shoots self in Tulinj police station at Nalasopara

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An on-duty head constable Sakharam Bhoye, deployed at Tulinj police station in Nalasopara East for the last four years, allegedly died by suicide on Thursday morning.


Bhoye, who completed his night shift, shot himself in the head with his service gun inside the cabin of a police inspector.


Hearing the gunshot, Bhoye's colleagues rushed to the cabin and found him in a pool of blood.


He was rushed to a nearby hospital where the doctors declared him brought dead.

On being informed about the incident, senior police officials reached Tulinj police station, which comes under the newly formed Mira Bhayandar-Vasai Virar police commissionerate.

The reason for suicide is not known but sources at the police station told Mid-day that Bhoye was reeling under job pressure.

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