New Delhi: A BSF jawan suffered a bullet injury during a scuffle to stop a commanding officer who was trying to end his life using a rifle at a camp located in the anti-Naxal operations grid of Odisha Tuesday, officials said.
“In a unfortunate incident, one of the officers deployed in Malkangiri district of Odisha for anti-Naxal operations duties tried to shoot himself.”
“The guard saved him by getting hold of the rifle. In the process, a round was fired which accidentally hit a BSF jawan working nearby in the camp,” a Border Security Force spokesperson said.
The injured personnel was administered first aid and immediately evacuated to Malkangiri district hospital, the spokesperson said.
The jawan is out of danger and a Court of Inquiry has been ordered to ascertain the facts of the incident, he said.
The officer who was allegedly attempting to end his life by using a service weapon holds the rank of second-in-command which is equivalent to a Superintendent of Police(SP).
–PTI
