A woman officer of the Northern Army Command committed suicide by shooting herself in Udhampur.
Mother says Sushmita wanted to leave army.
SRINAGAR: A woman officer of the Northern Army Command committed suicide by shooting herself in Udhampur.
According to police and army officials in Udhampur, about 65 km north of Jammu, the 25-year-old officer Lt. Sushmita Chakravorty of 5071 ASC Battalion went to a guest house near her official quarters on Thursday evening and asked the sentry there for his rifle.
The unsuspecting sentry handed his weapon and Lt. Chakravorty shot herself with it. She was taken to the army hospital where she was declared brought dead.
The officer’s mother Sadhana Chakravorty told media persons in Udhampur that Lt. Chakravorty had “unwillingly joined the army about 10 months ago.” The family hailed from Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh and she was a first grader in M.Sc chemistry from Bhopal. Her father P B Chakravorty is working with Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL). Lt. Chakravorty had returned from two months leave on May 30. “I came with her as she was feeling very low,” her mother said.
Sadhana told reporters that her daughter was very short tempered and had become more so as she was “disillusioned with her present job.” She wanted to quit the army but could not do so as “she had to pay bond money.”
Under army rules if any newly inducted officer wants to quit, he or she has to repay the whole expenditure incurred on training. The training amount is so huge that officers are unable to pay even if they forfeit their salaries and other savings.
Sub-area commander of the army Brigadier K K Chopra said the deceased officer had undergone psychiatric counseling twice in March before going on leave. “She was suffering from adjustment disorder. She had also undergone treatment in March,” he said.
“We had told her that the money could be arranged by selling off the house in Bhopal,” Sadhana said. But Lt. Chakravorty did not agree to it “because she was concerned about her younger brother too who had just passed Class 12.”
Lt Chakravorty was scheduled to go on a special training course to Bangalore next month.
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