Jawan at Lalu-Rabri house shoots himself

A native of Karnataka’s Bagalkot district, Giriyappa Kirasoor, 29, who had joined the service in 2012 and was posted at the Lalu-Rabri residence recently, had used his service weapon, X-95, an Israeli bullpup assault rifle, to end his life.

A CRPF constable of 224 Battalion, posted at 10 Circular Road in Patna — the residence of Bihar’s former chief minister couple, Lalu Prasad and Rabri Devi — shot himself fatally in the neck on Friday morning.

Police are tight-lipped over the incident, the victim’s colleagues, requesting not to be quoted, said that family issues, besides work pressure and leave problems, could be the reason* (Biplov Bhuyan/HT PHOTO)

A native of Karnataka’s Bagalkot district, Giriyappa Kirasoor, 29, who had joined the service in 2012 and was posted at the Lalu-Rabri residence recently, had used his service weapon, X-95, an Israeli bullpup assault rifle, to end his life.

Though police are tight-lipped over the incident, the victim’s colleagues, requesting not to be quoted, said that family issues, besides work pressure and leave problems, could be the reason. Officials said that a total of eight CRPF jawans were posted at the CMs’ residence in the high security squad. The government had recently enhanced the couple’s security to Z-plus. “The CRPF jawan’s body was sent to his native place by air via Delhi after post-mortem,” said Patna senior SP Garima Mallik. “The state police and the CRPF are carrying out separate investigations.”