Deceased PSI planned to hang self, but decided to shoot herself

SURAT: Investigation into suicide of 32-year-old woman police sub-inspector (PSI) revealed that she was planning to hang herself and had prepared a noose out of her dupatta before she decided to shoot herself with her service pistol. The deceased PSI Amita Joshi had shot herself in the abdomen on Saturday afternoon at her residence in police colony in Falsawadi.
The forensic team found a dupatta with a noose at on end from the room where Joshi’s body was found. Investigators are now gathering details about behavioural changes in Joshi over the past few days.
Police are also investigating if Joshi had some dispute with her husband Vaibhav Vyas, a driver with the city police. Sources in the police informed that Vyas wanted Joshi to leave the job to take care of their four-year-old son. While she wanted her husband to leave job to take care of their son.
As Joshi and her husband were having a hectic work schedule their son was living with his grandparents in Bhavnagar. Vyas had gone to Bhavnagar to participate in a marriage function and Joshi was alone at home where she shot herself.
Police also found that Joshi was talking over phone to her husband’s sister Manisha in Bhavnagar before she shot herself. Manisha had heard a loud noise over the phone after which asked Vaibhav to check on Joshi in Surat.
Joshi’s body was taken to the family’s native place in Amreli district on Sunday for cremation.