Varanasi: A 28-year-old police sub-inspector, allegedly driven to suicide by blackmail over an extramarital relationship, jumped before a moving train near Nagpur in Dharampur on the Varanasi-Chhapra rail route in Ballia district late Saturday. Police arrested a 22-year-old woman on Sunday on charges of abetment of suicide following a complaint by the deceased officer’s wife.Ballia SP Iraj Raja said the initial investigation revealed that Sandeep Kumar, a 2023-batch officer, was allegedly in an extramarital relationship with the woman, a resident of Sikandarpur, who had been blackmailing him. Police also found that the same woman had lodged two rape cases against a police constable in the past, and the latter is still lodged in jail.The incident came to light when a train’s loco pilot informed the Chitbaragaon station master through a memo that someone had jumped before his train. After being alerted by railway officials, Chitbaragaon police and GRP reached the spot, where Kumar’s motorbike and mobile phone were found lying near the railway track, while his mutilated body was found on the tracks.On receiving information, Raja, ASP (South) Sanjay Verma, CO Akshay Kumar and railway police officials also reached the spot. A forensic team was engaged to collect evidence from the railway track area.Kumar, a resident of Sant Kabir Nagar, was married and had a six-month-old child. He had been posted at Chitbaragaon police station for the past 11 months. He was transferred to Pakri police station but had not yet been relieved from his old posting because of arrangements for the Chhath festival. On Saturday evening, he had left the police station after informing colleagues that he was going to his duty point.After the postmortem examination, Kumar’s mortal remains were brought to the police lines, where officials paid tribute to him with a guard of honour and observed a two-minute silence.
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