In another shocking incident, a police constable , unable to cope up with life allegedly turned his service rifle on on himself and shot himself to death in the upper KG class in the Mary Immaculate High School in Panjim . The suicide is said to have been committed at approximately 10.15 pm, however the body of the constable was only discovered the next morning at 6:45am, by the school watchman, who then immediately informed the principal Sr Florence.. According to reports, the 28 yr old constable, Vaibhav Vaigankar picked up his .303 service rifle, rested the handle on the wall and thrust its muzzle onto his chest.. a wooden stick for the panel of the wall was used to pull the trigger.. Viabhav, was attached to the Bicholim police , but was posted in the North District Reserve Line Force and was on duty , guarding the std XII examination papers at the evaluation centre.. He left behind two notes, one to his parents and the other to his brother-in-law, citing his reason for the suicide as being a failure and and the fact that he was lonely.. According to experts, though police are under a enormous amount of stress considering their long duty hours and having to handle people with difficult behaviour, instances of police going beserk and killing either themselves or their colleagues are relatively rare.. However, physical ailments such as diabetes, hypertension, gravely increasing stress levels as well as Depression are considerably on the rise in Goa... Infact due to unawareness, many individuals are not even aware that they suffer form clinical depression..And hence never seek treatment for it.. In the year 2004-2005, the Psychiatric Society of Goa suggested that the Goverment, introduce stress management courses to people in goverment jobs. The State goverment rejected it due to " lack of finance".. Guess the money were required for more "important " things ,such a filling our politicians pockets !!!!!!!! Dr Beverley de Sequeira.
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