Overview
- DSP Yogesh Kumar Sharma, 55, suffered a fatal chest wound when his service revolver fired as he cleaned it at his official residence in Phagwara on Tuesday.
- Fellow officers rushed him to Civil Hospital Phagwara, where doctors declared him brought dead, according to police.
- An inquest under Section 174 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita is underway, with statements being recorded and a board of doctors assigned to the post-mortem.
- Kapurthala police said he had recently moved to the Bureau of Investigation in Chandigarh and was preparing to return the weapon to the Anti-Narcotics Task Force.
- Sharma was at home with his mother shortly before the shot, and the local superintendent said there were no signs of self-harm as police treat the firing as accidental.