IPS officer was reportedly under tremendous pressure'.
Visakhapatnam: The mystery shrouding the death of young IPS officer K. Sasi Kumar, 29, ASP, Paderu, came to a logical conclusion on Friday after the CID officials examined the contents of his suicide note which read, “No one is responsible for his death, no one instigated him and he was under tremendous pressure in the past three months.”
A senior police officer said on condition of anonymity that they had found a brief suicide note, hand-written by Sasi Kumar, on his desk in office chambers at Paderu in Vizag Agency on Thursday morning, suggesting that he was apparently depressed although it was not clear if it was due to professional or personal issues.
Sasi Kumar committed suicide by shooting himself with his 9mm service pistol, a Glock-17, at his office chambers at Paderu in Vizag Agency on Thursday morning. Though cops have not revealed the full content of the suicide note, sources said that the ASP didn't blame any of his superiors or family me-mbers for this extreme step. “We recovered the suicide note from the spot, but have to wait for the final report, with examination of the handwriting, fingerprint analysis and also the post-mortem report to confirm that it was a case of suicide,” said a senior IPS officer in the Visakha Police Range.
Sources also said that the short suicide note did not clearly mention the exact reason for Sasi Ku-mar taking this step, though it referred in a single line to his professional life and very little allusion to his personal. The SP was depressed over the fallout of certain official commitments. Though Sasi Kumar was an honest and sincere officer, he was an introvert who tended to blame himself for small issues in the Paderu region. The ASP took a few matters too much to heart, allowing them to build up pressure. He might have felt that he was ignored by the senior officials. Sasi Kumar ought to have sh-ared some of the issues with his seniors to de-stress himself; instead, he suffered in solitude and was depressed, they added.
Senior police officers said that Sasi Kumar could not be blamed for a few incidents and that he was good at his job. Some incidents, such as the landmine blast, triggered by the red rebels at Dhooliputtu in Munchingput, in which a CRPF jawan was injured; a minister's surprise visit to a Maoist-affected area without proper security; a fire mishap near a local temple in Paderu and a few other events, were said to have affected him.
