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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | ‘Election ke kharchon ka target abhi se de diya hai’-Ashutosh Bhardwaj

‘Election ke kharchon ka target abhi se de diya hai’-Ashutosh Bhardwaj

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published Published on Mar 18, 2012   modified Modified on Mar 18, 2012

There is a new twist to the alleged suicide of Bilaspur SP Rahul Sharma. One of the officer’s closest friends has said that a week before Sharma allegedly shot himself, he had fretted about being made to do “begaar” (literally, forced labour), and that he had been given a “target” for “election expenses”.
Sharma was found dead at the Bilaspur police officers’ mess on March 12. A day later, IG G P Singh read out “selected portions” from an alleged suicide note, in which Sharma purportedly complained about “such an interfering boss”.

Singh, who was Sharma’s boss, has since been moved to police headquarters in Raipur. Assembly elections are due in Chhattisgarh towards the end of 2013.

Harimohan Thakuriya, a man who went to university with Sharma and who now runs a coaching institute in Jaipur, wrote on the officer’s Facebook wall on Wednesday: “I talked to him on 5 March. A few lines of our conversation were: Yaar, bahut begaar karwate hain. Koi self respect hi nahi hai. Election ke kharchon ka target abhi se de diya hai. Kya isliye itni padhai karke IPS bana tha? (They force us to do things. They have no respect for us. They have already given us a target to meet their election expenses. Did I study so hard to become an IPS officer for all this?)”

Thakuriya, who was at Jawaharlal Nehru University with Sharma and his wife Gayatri, confirmed he had posted on the officer’s wall. “He was among my closest friends. He was very sad recently. He told me, ‘vardi vaalon se ugahi karva rahe hain’. (Uniformed officers are being compelled to become extortionists).

“He wanted to leave his job, and I had even found a job for him in Jaipur. I was about to call him on Monday (March 12) but it (the suicide) had already happened,” Thakuriya told The Sunday Express.

The shot that killed Sharma was fired at around 12.30 pm, and he died instantly. His bodyguard heard the report, and rushed to Sharma’s room immediately. Yet, Gayatri was told only at 2.45 pm, and IG Singh claimed he had got to know at 3 pm. Sharma’s laptop, which was in the room, is missing.

The Indian Express, 18 March, 2012, http://www.indianexpress.com/news/election-ke-kharchon-ka-target-abhi-se-de-diya-hai/925165/0


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