Silvester D'Souza
Daijiworld Media Network - Kundapur (SP)

Updated

Kundapur, Feb 4: A police constable attached to Kollur police station in the taluk ended his life by hanging himself in his room. The incident came to light on Sunday February 4 morning.

The identity of the person has been given as Nagaraj.

Nagaraj was a 2014 batch constable. He was unmarried. He was working in Kollur police station since the year 2015. He was from Davanagere, and as per information, his marriage had been fixed recently. Recently he had been deputed to Joida station after which he came back to Kollur two days back.

After his duty hours on Saturday morning, he had gone back to the room allotted to him in Sauparnika guest house of Kollur temple. His roommate, Sandeep, who also is a police constable, had been to Gangolli for work. When he came back after night shift, he found Nagaraj's body hanging from a rope.

Nagaraj's colleagues say that he did not seem to be suffering from any serious problems and there were no signs of depression.

Nagaraj's love interest attempts suicide

Nagaraj's suicide case took a curious turn after it was revealed that love affair between him and his batch-mate, Reshma, was behind his decision to end his life abruptly. Reshma tried to end her life by jumping into a well near Kollur police station on Sunday. Luckily, police personnel rescued her and got her admitted to the government hospital at Kollur.

It is said that Nagaraj and Reshma, who were recruited in the same batch, were in love with each other. On Saturday, the duo had fought on the issue of taking leave. Nagaraj is said to have told Reshma that if she was determined to proceed on leave, she could go ahead but he would take his own life if she did. Nagaraj had posed similar treats even in the past, and therefore, Reshma did not take this threat seriously, it is said.

After coming to knnow about Nagaraj's death, a distressed Reshma jumped into a well. She is being treated by the doctors of the government hospital Kollur.

Kollur police sub-inspector and staff rushed to the spot after coming to know about the tragedy and took measures to register a case and inform his family.