Hyderabad: A 30-year-old constable who was addicted to alcohol allegedly committed suicide at Meerpet on Sunday.
Police said R. Ramesh hanged himself on the ceiling. Ramesh who was posted in Meerpet police station was attached to the control room in the commissioner’s office four months ago as he was irregular in attending duties.
Meerpet SI A. Raju said that Ramesh, a 2009 batch constable, was married to Nikhitha and was staying at Balapur X Roads along with two kids. He used to often come home drunk and beat up his wife and kids.
On Saturday evening he came heavily drunk and started beating Nikitha. “When he tried to beat up his three-month-old son she got scared and went to her home with both kids after which Ramesh was alone in the home,” he said. On Sunday morning he went out on work, returned home in the noon and committed suicide.
Neighbours saw him hanging in his house and informed the police, who registered a suspicious death case and shifted the body for autopsy.
