Mystery over RPF cop suicide deepens

Call records show he spoke to a lady for nearly two hours every day

March 15, 2017 07:14 am | Updated 07:14 am IST - Mumbai

RPF constable Dalveer Singh who committed suicide.

RPF constable Dalveer Singh who committed suicide.

The suicide of the Railway Protection Force constable Dalbir Singh seems shrouded in mystery with new details and evidence coming to light every day. The Railway police investigating the case have learnt that Dalbir Singh used to talk to a married woman from his village for nearly two hours daily.

According to the Government Railway Police, the lady with whom Singh was involved had two SIM cards and she use to call him everyday for several times. “Singh used to talk to her for nearly two hours everyday and on an average he used to get 13 calls per day from her numbers. Singh received nearly 214 calls from one SIM and 169 calls from the second SIM card in just a month time,” said a railway police official. The official also said that we are trying to look at each and every possible angle to this case.

Leads from calls

The railway police investigating the case said the lady lived nearly 40km away from Singh’s village and they met a few years back at Udaipur railway station. “She went to a fair in Udaipur where her kid got lost her kid. Singh helped the lady find her child and they exchanged numbers,” added the official. “If somebody is talking to the same lady for hours everyday and also visited his village in Haryana almost every month, there is something fishy. We are also planning to interrogate the lady soon,” adds the official.

Singh has four sisters three of whom are married. The family was planning to get him married in May and he was engaged in January. “The family came to know about his alleged affair with the married lady and was forcing him to leave her. On the other side, it is said that the lady was also forcing him to not get married and was blackmailing him, said an official.

Datratray Pawar, senior inspector of police, GRP, Mumbai Central, confirmed the number of calls received and made by Singh. “We also visited the lady in village and she said that they were family friends and their families visited each other regularly,” said Mr. Pawar.

Singh had joined the RPF in 2015 and was living at the RPF barracks in Khar. He shot himself with his AK-47 rifle just before going on duty last week.

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