Poonch, July 16: A Head Constable with ITBP died under mysterious circumstances at his home in Poonch district on Saturday.
While initial reports suggest that the 50-year-old Head Constable Rajinder Kumar son of Nand Lal, who was home on leave, set himself a blaze at his residential house in Mohalla Power, police said all angles are being looked into. “The death is still mysterious,” a police officer said. Asked if police rules out suicide as a possibility for the death, the officer said that “all angles including suicide is being looked into.”
SHO Poonch Ranjit Singh Rao confirmed the death of the Head Constable due to burn injuries but said that matter was under investigation and “things will come to fore as regards how the death took place.”
Official sources told that Kumar was taken District hospital Poonch with severe burn injuries at around 1930 hours. However doctors declared him brought dead.
(GNS)
