CRPF personnel dies

SNS, Kurseong, 11 September 2013: One Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel ~ Shanti Prasad (52) ~ posted at Kalimpong in the Darjeeling Hills died today morning. It was learnt that at around 6 a.m, at a CRPF camp put up at a regulated market place in Kalimpong, Prasad had woken up as usual and gone to wash himself up and was about to brush his teeth when he suddenly slipped and blood started to spurt out of his mouth and nose. 

Following the incident, his friends immediately rushed him to the Kalimpong Sub-divisional Hospital where he was declared brought dead. 

The CRPF commandant, Mr B K Biswas, said that as per the Doctors of Kalimpong Sub-divisional Hospital, the death might have occurred due to heart attack. After post-mortem, the body was later brought to the camp. 

All of us are very sad over the untimely demise of a close colleague and we bestow our heartfelt homage to the departed soul. Mr Biswas also informed that late Prasad’s body will be taken home to Gandhinagar in Gujarat tomorrow by flight from the Bagdogra Airport. 

Shanti Prasad belonged to the 68 CRPF Battalion and had recently been placed in Kalimpong on 3 August. Notably, more than a dozen company of the CRPF had been deployed in the month of August in Darjeeling Hills to maintain peace in the midst of the sudden call of a fresh Gorkhaland agitation by the regional GJMM Party. 

However, in the third phase of the Gorkhaland agitation, so far, no violent confrontation have occurred between the agitators and the CRPF as the agitation have been staged largely peacefully. 

At the same time, the Kalimpong Police has registered a case of unnatural death over the demise of the CRPF personnel.