Chandigarh, Nov 14: A 35-year-old head constable of the Punjab Police allegedly died by suicide after shooting himself in the head with his licensed rifle at the Botanical Garden on the Panjab University (PU) campus on Friday evening.
According to police officials, the incident occurred around 4:30 pm. Officials from the PU Department of Botany spotted the body and immediately alerted the authorities, prompting police and forensic teams to rush to the North Campus site to examine the scene.
Investigators confirmed that the deceased, a native of Amritsar, was deployed as the personal security officer (PSO) to the head gardener of the Botanical Garden and had taken up his current posting roughly four months ago. No suicide note was recovered from the spot, and inquest proceedings are underway to ascertain the circumstances behind the incident.
