Assam home secretary Shiladitya Chetia commits suicide after his wife’s death
Senior IPS officer and home secretary Shiladitya Chetia committed suicide at NEMCARE Hospital at Bhangarh here on Tuesday minutes after the hospital authorities declared the death of his wife.
In a post on X, Assam DGP GP Singh wrote: “In an unfortunate turn of events, Sri Shiladitya Chetia IPS 2009 RR, Secretary Home & Political Government of Assam, took his own life this evening, a few minutes after the attending physician declared the death of his wife who was battling cancer for a long time. The entire Assam Police family is in deep grief.”
Chetia, an IPS officer of the 2009 batch, was on leave for the last four months due to his wife’s ill health.
Chetia’s wife has been battling cancer and she passed away at the hospital following which the IPS officer shot himself with his service pistol in the hospital.
Chetia’s wife was in the fourth stage of carcinoma and was under treatment at the hospital for the last several days.
Shiladitya Chetia was mentally down due to his wife’s ill health for the last few days and the unfortunate incident took place on Tuesday. He was staying at the hospital and looking after his wife.
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