A Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) jawan on Thursday committed suicide while on duty by shooting himself with his service rifle in Siddharth Nagar district.
According to official sources, Rajnish Kumar of Bihar, who was posted at Bagha area, came for his quarter guard duty at 10 a.m. and shot himself with his Insas rifle.
He was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was declared dead, the sources said.
It is suspected that he took the extreme step because he was apparently upset over being shifted to Arunachal Pradesh for duty.