CRPF jawan commits suicide, another dies mysteriously in Kashmir

SRINAGAR, MAR 7 (UNI) A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) had constable committed suicide and another jawan died under ''mysterious circumstances'' in the Kashmir Valley today.

A CRPF spokesman told UNI that head constable Krishen Singh, a resident of Jammu, of 141 CRPF batallion shot himself dead by a weapon of another jawan at Kakpora, Pulwama in south Kashmir this afternoon.

He said Singh had joined only yesterday after availing the leave.

Singh was not allotted weapon as he was disturbed since his return. However, he shot himself with the weapon of another jawan at 1515 hrs the spokesman said, adding, he died before he could be shifted to a hospital.

A police spokesman said constable Showkeen Singh died under ''suspicious circumstances'' in the CRPF camp at Shiraz cinema Khanyar in the down town city this morning.

He said proceedings under Section 174 of the CrPC have been initiated by the police.

About a dozen security force personnel have committed suicides in the Kashmir Valley during the past six months. A number of security personnel, including senior officers, were killed by their colleagues in different camps.

In a similar incident, an Army jawan was awarded death sentence by an Army Court here recently for killing Lt Colonel Saket Saxena at Harwan camp here last year.

Despite the introduction of 'Yoga and Art of living' to help security personnel to cope with mental stress and other family problems, security jawans continue to face such condition in Jammu and Kashmir.

UNI