“She had been battling terminal brain cancer for the past few months. When she was declared dead in the isolation ICU, Chetia excused herself to pray and let the on-duty doctors and nurses go out for a moment. No one could have foreseen such a situation… They heard a loud noise and ran after seeing Chetia's body covered in blood,'' said Baroha.
According to Baroah, Chetia shot himself in the back of the head with his service pistol. While his wife died at around 4.24 pm, he died at around 4.32 pm.
Chetia's body has been taken to Guwahati Medical College Hospital for post-mortem.
His wife was hospitalized for the last four months. She was 43, a year younger than him.
A 2009-batch DIG-rank IPS officer, Shiladitya Chetia served as Superintendent of Police in Golaghat, Barpeta and Sonitpur districts and in counter-insurgency operations in Tinsukia before taking charge as a secretary in the Assam government. Supervised.
Taking to social media, Assam DGP G P Singh offered his condolences. He wrote, “The entire Assam Police family is in deep grief.
In an unfortunate turn of events, Sri Shiladitya Chetia IPS 2009 RR, Home Secretary and Political Government of Assam took his own life this evening, after the attending physician declared the death of his wife who was suffering from cancer for a long time. was fighting . All of Assam… pic.twitter.com/s2yQpVuUpl
— GP Singh (@gpsinghips) June 18, 2024
Reports suggest that Chetia was on leave for the past four months, presumably to visit his ailing wife. It is learned that the couple had no children.
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(Editing by Amritash Arora)
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