Kin of cop who killed self allege police pressure

CHENNAI: Family members and friends of G Rajasekar, the police inspector who committed suicide last Saturday, allege that some of his superiors are pressurising them to not approach the court seeking a CBI probe.
On March 12, Rajasekar, 39, was found hanging from a ceiling fan in a lodge near the Mylapore police station where he worked. He had left behind a suicide note in which he named two of his seniors, said police sources.The CB-CID wing has started an enquiry on Thursday into the death.
Meanwhile, the family of Rajasekar was all set to approach a city court to ask for a CBI probe into death, said the late inspector’s friend and advocate R Suresh Kumar. “Two police officials visited Rajasekar’s house a few days ago and told his family that they will invite unnecessary trouble if they go to court,” Suresh Kumar told Times of India.
Since all documentation work has been completed, Suresh is going to approach the court on behalf of the family, he said. “Rajasekar has mentioned in the note how three senior officials pressurised him to change the names of the accused in the Mylapore double murder case’s first information report (FIR). They kept calling him and he couldn’t handle the pressure,” he said.
The day before he committed suicide, Rajasekar received 83 calls on his mobile phone from a senior official, said Suresh Kumar. “I am going to get file a petition under the Right To Information Act to get Rajasekar’s mobile call records for the period of March 10-12. We are also waiting to get the detailed postmortem report,” he said.
Rajasekar, a native of Ponneri, had joined the Mylapore station on February 10, barely hours after the sensational double murder of gangsters Billa Suresh and Vijayan within his station limits. He arrested 39 persons in connection with the murders. While one of the senior officials wanted to book 20 of them under the Goondas Act, there was pressure from politicians to go slow, said a police officer.
“Rajasekar used to talk about how politicians were putting pressure on his seniors. They in turn asked him to go slow and asked him to add some new names to the FIR instead of the original accused persons,” said Suresh Kumar, pointing to a copy of the suicide note.
When contacted, senior police officials refused to comment. “The case is being investigated by the CB-CID and we cannot comment,” said Shakeel Akhter, additional commissioner of police (law and order).