Maharashtra cop dies by suicide after colleague rejects marriage proposal
The police constable died by suicide while he was on guard duty at Lok Bhavan, the governor’s official residence.
The local Malabar Hill police station took an accidental death report in the matter. (Source: File/ Representational) A 26-year-old police constable with the Maharashtra State Reserve Police Force (SRPF) posted at the governor’s official residence died by suicide on Monday night after his colleague allegedly rejected his marriage proposal, a police probe has found.
The woman had also lodged a complaint with the local police station saying the constable, Kaustubh Sangle, who hails from Nashik, had been threatening suicide if she did not agree to marry him.
Sangle, posted with the State Reserve Police Force Group 16 Kolhapur, allegedly died by suicide around 8.30 pm while he was on guard duty at Lok Bhavan, the governor’s official residence.
While he did not leave behind any suicide note, the police probe revealed that Sangle had been persuading the woman, who got into the force a year before him, to marry him. “He was interested in the woman and wanted to marry her. But she did not want to marry him and had told him about it. Recently, Sangle came to know that her family had fixed her marriage, and he became angry,” an officer at the Malabar Hill police station said.
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