Visakhapatnam: Love failure could have led to suicide

Visakhapatnam: The mysterious death of IPS officer K. Sasi Kumar,  29, ASP Paderu, who allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his revolver at Paderu in Vizag Agency on Thursday, has triggered several questions regarding the motive.

It is suspected that Sasi Kumar, a bachelor, might have committed suicide upset over failed love affair. Sources in the police department said that sometime Kumar’s behavior indicated that of a failed relationship.

However, no suicide note was found and the ASP had not visited his home town in Tamil Nadu in the past few months hinting at some personal problems. Sasi Kumar was a dynamic, efficient and honest police officer.

During his posting at Allagadda in Kurnool district as ASP, Kumar has proved his mark in policing particularly in curbing the red sandalwood smuggling and arresting most wanted smugglers and also maintaining strict law and order. The death of Sasi Kumar is a great loss to police department and I still am in a shock, said Superintendent of Police, Kurnool, Ake Ravi Krishna.

Sources said that the ASP was posted in Maoist prone area where ganja was cultivated heavily. Sasi Kumar was allegedly being harassing by another IPS officer over an incident, in which three CRPF jawans were injured in a landmine blast triggered by the Maoists near Dhooliputtu area under Munchangiput mandal in Paderu sub-division limits in April this year.

Though Kumar has visualised the possible attack on the CRPF security personnel, his superior ignored Kumar’s advice. Soon after the incident, Sasi Kumar was targeted by an IPS officer, who harassed Kumar stating that he was an inefficient police officer.  

Since then, Kumar was targeted in every meeting and finally Kumar ended in depression and has resorted to the extreme step. However, SP (Visakha Rural) Rahul Dev Sharma said that Sasi Kumar never showed any signs of depression. He said that Sasi Kumar was in touch with him regularly in the last few weeks, mostly discussing the operational issues.

“Even yesterday he spoke to me and had interaction with his subordinates. There were no signs of illness or depression,”  Mr Sharma added. The exact cause of  Kumar's suicide is not clear yet.