A 52-year-old inspector of police allegedly died by suicide attributable to work-related stress in Andhra Pradesh’s Anantapur district within the early hours of Monday, his relations claimed.

Anantapur superintendent of police Kanchi Srinivasa Rao, nonetheless, advised reporters that the inspector had resorted to the intense step attributable to long-standing household disputes.

Even on Sunday evening, the inspector had an altercation along with his spouse over some household dispute, he mentioned.

The police inspector, who hailed from Chandragiri city of Chittoor district, was transferred from Kadapa to Tadipatri in September final yr, the SP mentioned, including that the inspector is survived by his spouse, two sons and a daughter.

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“The body was found in his bedroom. We have registered a case of suspicious death under Section 174 of Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) and taken up the investigation,” the SP mentioned.

Meanwhile, the deceased individual’s daughter mentioned her father died attributable to work-related stress.

“For the last three months, my father was complaining about facing difficulties due to work pressure,” she mentioned.

The suicide case led to a verbal duel between former Tadipatri MLA, municipal chairman JC Prabhakar Reddy and current the Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP) MLA Kethireddy Pedda Reddy.

Prabhakar alleged that the inspector had been below fixed stress from the MLA to focus on the opposition occasion chief.

“Unable to bear the extreme pressure, he died by suicide. Now, the MLA and the police personnel are pressuring the family to admit that he had died due to family disputes,” the TDP chief alleged.

Pedda Reddy rubbished Prabhakar’s allegations and mentioned it was unlucky that the TDP was making an attempt to realize political mileage even from the dying of a police inspector.

“There is absolutely no political pressure on the inspector. It is not correct to play cheap politics over such an unfortunate incident. If necessary, we shall request the police to conduct a high-level inquiry into the incident,” the YSRCP MLA mentioned.

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