Cop kills self over financial troubles in Ahmedabad

AHMEDABAD: A 53-year-old head constable posted in the security branch of the State Reserve Police Force (SRPF) in Gandhinagar, allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his service revolver on Thursday afternoon at a vacant house in Sector-30 of the capital, ostensibly due to financial problems.
Sata Teja Rabari, a native of Ramdhani village of Shihor taluka in Bhavnagar district, had been in the service for around 25 years, said Gandhinagar deputy superintendent of police M K Rana. Rabari had been deployed in the security branch at the state secretariat in Gandhinagar for five years and lived in a flat at Pethapur village.
Rana said Rabari went to a vacant house in the government colony at Sector 30 in his car and shot himself. As a police control room (PCR) vehicle passed by, two cops in the van saw the vehicle in front of the vacant house. Suspecting illegal activity, they went inside and found Rabari in a pool of blood.
Rana further said that a suicide note was found in Rabari’s pocket, in which he described the financial problems he was facing for six months.
“Rabari had also called his wife at around 11.45am and told her that this would be his last call and asked her to take care of their four children. In the note, he also asked his younger brother to take care of his children and fix his elder son’s engagement,” said Rana.
An official of Sector-21 police station, where a case of accidental death was registered, said that Rabari did not say in the note whether he was being harassed by a moneylender.
He just wrote that he was in a financial crisis and it was impossible for him to live any more.