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Imphal: A 32-year-old Central Reserve Police Force constable died by suicide on August 5 at a training camp in Manipur. Vineet Singh, a native of Purvabajirao village in Uttar Pradesh’s Hardoi district, shot himself under the chin at 8 am. He used his issued INSAS service rifle inside the Motbung camp in Kangpokpi district. He died at the scene.
Singh was attached to the F/112 Battalion and was undergoing pre-induction training with C/122 Company at the time of the tragedy. Camp personnel rushed to the barracks after hearing the shot but found no suicide note. Sapermeina Police Station officials moved the body to the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences in Imphal for post-mortem exams.
Sapermeina police registered an unnatural death case under Section 194 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita. Investigators are now reviewing service records and interviewing fellow trainees to find a motive. As police noted, "The motive behind the incident is yet to be established."
Manipur currently hosts over 300 companies of Central Armed Police Forces. These deployments include 206 CRPF companies, 100 from the BSF, 21 Assam Rifles units, six from the Sashastra Seema Bal, and five from the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, along with Army and local police units. Ongoing ethnic violence between Meitei and Kuki-Zo communities since May 3, 2023, has left 260 dead and 60,000 displaced.
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