Former chief of Maharashtra anti-terrorism squad (ATS), Himanshu Roy, allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself on Friday. He was a 1988-batch IPS officer and Anti-Terrorist Squad Chief. Roy shot himself at his residence with his service revolver. Roy was suffering from cancer and the motive behind the suicide isn’t known yet. Roy played a major role in solving many important cases like Dawood’s brother Iqbal Kaskar’s driver Arif’s firing, journalist J Dey killing, Vijay Palande, Laila Khan double murder case. Himanshu Roy also led the investigations into several big cases including the 2013 Indian Premier League spot-fixing case. He had gone on a long leave on medical grounds.

“He was a very bright officer. Such a tragedy” said MN Singh, who was his superior at a point.

A ‘Bombay’ boy, Roy was an ex-student of Campion and St Xavier’s College, Mumbai. His father was a well known Colaba doctor. Roy was born on 23 June 1963. He had a B.Com, from St Xavier’s College. He was appointed to Indian Police Services on 21 August 1989. He was presently serving as the Additional DGP (Esstt.), MS, Mumbai.