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Police official ends life

Tarini Patra

BERHAMPUR: Tarini Patro, a police officer who claimed flute to be his weapon to fight in life could bow down to the nozzle of the gun to commit suicide in his GRPF office at Berhampur station on Sunday night.

While living he was an enigma which intensified more with his death. Although it did not match with his angst filled profession he was better known in the cultural circles as an adept flutist whose classical recitals could serve as tranquiliser for tense minds. He was also active in the theatre movement in the city as a music director. He was also a poet. But as a policeman he donned a different persona laden with strictness. Despite his tight schedule he never forgot to reach ‘Ganjam Kala Parishad’ every night at around 9 p.m. for ‘riyaz’ of an hour with a group of theatre activists and lovers of classical music.

The whole city was stunned when news that he had shot himself spread. He was posted as the officer-in-charge of the GRPF police station in the Berhampur railway station. On Sunday night he had broken his routine. He did not turn up for his ‘riyaz’. He reached his office directly from home. He shot himself on his right temple with his service revolver inside the office at around 9 p.m. He was immediately carried to the MKCG Medical College Hospital where he breathed his last at around 11 p.m.

No one could believe that the person who had even dared to teach his deaf and dumb daughter to play the flute could take this drastic decision. His friend and noted theatre activist, Raju Padhi, said no one could ever get a hint that he was suppressing a great depression within him which proved to be fatal. Even his suicide note was poetic in language.

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