Bengaluru: Amid nationwide outrage over a techie’s chilling suicide, another similar incident in the same city has shaken up Bengaluru.
This time, the ‘victim’ is a cop.
Officials said on Saturday that a Bengaluru Police constable took his own life while in uniform, allegedly due to torture by his wife and in-laws.
Identified as HC Thippanna, the 34-year-old hailed from Handiganuru village in Vijayapura district and worked as Head Constable at Hulimavu traffic police station in Bengaluru.
On Friday night, he took the extreme step on the railway tracks between Heelalige station and Carmelaram Husaguru railway gate in the city.
His body was taken to the hospital mortuary.
The constable left behind a suicide note, blaming his wife and father-in-law for the suicide.
Thippanna stated in the note that he was “deeply saddened” by the torture from his wife and his father-in-law Yamunappa, who he alleged threatened to kill him. “On December 12, he called me at 7.26 pm, spoke for 14 minutes, and threatened me,” the constable wrote in his note.
Thippanna further said that when he reached out to his father-in-law over phone the next morning, he asked the constable to die, saying that “his daughter would be better off without me.. He also abused me.”
Byappanahalli Railway Police have filed a case in the incident, and launched an investigation.
Five days ago, Atul Subhash — a Bihar-based engineer who worked at an automobile company in Bengaluru — died by suicide alleging harassment by his wife in a video and a note.
Subhash shot a video of more than an hour in which he made several allegations against his wife Nikita Singhania before dying by suicide. He also left behind a 24-page suicide note.
He claimed his estranged wife demanded Rs 3 crore for a divorce settlement.
“If the court decides that the corrupt judge and my wife and other harassers are not guilty, then pour my ashes into some gutter outside the court. Don’t do my ‘asthi visarjan’ till my harassers get punished,” he said in the note.
He also sent an email to President Droupadi Murmu and the Supreme Court, urging them to take some steps to rescue harassed husbands and arrest the accused persons.
