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Srinagar, Jun 16: A female officer of the Indian Army committed suicide by shooting herself in Udhampur, headquarter of the army's Northern Command, in Jammu and Kashmir as she was "dissatisfied and unhappy with her job".

According to police and army officials in Udhampur, about 65 km north of Jammu, the 25-year-old officer Lt. Sushmita Chakravorty of 5071 ASC Battalion went to a guest house near her official quarters on Thursday evening and asked the sentry there for his rifle "as she wanted to get her photo with that".

The unsuspecting sentry handed his weapon and in moments Lt. Chakravorty shot herself with it. She was shifted to the army hospital where she was declared brought dead.

This is the first incident of its kind in Jammu and Kashmir of a female army officer committing suicide.

The officer's mother Sadhana Chakravorty told media persons in Udhampur that Lt. Chakravorty had "unwillingly joined the army about 10 months ago".

The family hailed from Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh and she was a first grader in M. Sc chemistry from Bhopal. Her father P B Chakravorty is working with Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL).

Lt. Chakravorty had returned from two months leave on May 30. "I came with her as she was feeling very low," her mother said.

Sadhana told reporters that her daughter was very short tempered and had become more so as she was "disillusioned with her present job". She wanted to quit the army but could not do so as "she had to pay the bond money to the army".

"We had told her that the money could be arranged by selling off the house in Bhopal," Sadhana said. But Lt. Chakravorty did not agree to it "because she was concerned about her younger brother too who had just passed Class 12."

Police have registered a case and the body of the officer was being flown to her home town Bhopal.