Committee constituted to study issue of suicide among personnel of Assam Police

February 18: An Assam police constable, Babul Chandra Das, who was posted at Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal‘s residence, ‘committed suicide’ on Sunday night. The deceased was undergoing a heart disease treatment and police suspect Babul Chandra committed suicide due to depression. It needs mention here that two years back a security guard shot himself with his service rifle at the CM’s residence.

It was in this backdrop that the Director-General of Police has passed an order to constitute a committee to study the issue of suicide amongst the personnel of Assam Police. The committee that will be chaired by Dipak Kumar ADGP (TAP) will have Gaurav Upadhya, AIG (L) as the member convenor and Nanda Singh AIG (AP) and Dipjyoti Sharma (Medical and Health Officer, 10th AP Bn) as members. The committee would be submitting its report within 10 days.

The committee was entrusted to submit its recommendation for the systems & processes that need to be created / improved upon so that the trend of suicides being committed by Assam Police Personnel is prevented.