Two CRPF men commit suicide in Kashmir

Srinagar: Two CRPF men committed suicide in Kashmir on Tuesday by shooting themselves with their service rifles, forcing the top brass to order an in-house probe to find out reasons for suicide.
The first incident took place in Mattan area of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district where a CRPF Sub Inspector identified as Fatah Singh of 96 battalion shot himself dead with his service rifle. He left behind a suicide note that read: “Don’t touch my body, I am afraid, I may have Corona.”
After a few hours, a CRPF Assistant Sub-Inspector Bengali Babu also committed suicide by shooting himself with his service rifle at his 49th battalion camp in Srinagar.
In the first case, the police said that they followed the proper protocol and took the samples of the deceased sub-inspector to find out whether he was infected with Covid. “His post-mortem has been conducted and now we are waiting for his report which is expected to come in the evening,” a police officer said.
Special Director General of CRPF for (J&K), Zulfikar Hassan said that two “unfortunate incidents” have happened since morning in Kashmir. “We are trying to find out what prompted these boys to shoot themselves. This is being looked into,” he said.
Asked whether the lockdown has increased the stress levels among the CRPF personnel in Kashmir, Hassan said that constant de-stressing exercises, lessons and frequent counseling sessions are being given to the CRPF men deployed across J&K.
“We are ascertaining what led these two boys to take the extreme step,” he said. CRPF officials said that an in-house probe has been launched to find out reasons that led to two CRPF men to take extreme step