RUDRAPUR, Jan 15: Two police personnel, including a Station House Officer, have been suspended with "immediate effect" and 10 cops sent to Police Lines after a 40-year-old farmer from Uttarakhand's Udham Singh Nagar allegedly shot himself in the head in Haldwani over a four-year land dispute.
Moments before his death, Sukhwant Singh went live on Facebook purportedly reading out from a "nine-page suicide note", blaming the police for "mental harassment and inaction".
Directing the authorities to investigate the case "fairly and in a transparent manner", Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami ordered a magisterial inquiry led by Kumaon Commissioner Deepak Rawat.
Soon after that, SHO of ITI police station, Kundan Singh Rautela, and Sub-Inspector Prakash Bisht of the same thana were suspended, and departmental proceedings initiated against them.
Ten police personnel, posted at Paiga outpost under ITI, were attached to Police Lines, Rudrapur.
Besides the action against the cops, US Nagar SSP Manikant Mishra also asked for a separate, detailed probe into the incident, and assigned SP (crime) to submit a report.
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