Kalimpong,11 SEPT: 

One Central Reserve Police Force, (CRPF), personel  Shanti Prasad (53) posted at Kalimpong in the restless Darjeeling hills died in the morning today.

It was learnt that at around 6am, at a CRPF camp put up at a regulated market place in Kalimpong, Shanti Prasad had woken up as usual and gone to wash himself up and while brushing his teeth he suddenly fell down and blood started to spurt out of his mouth and nose. Following the incident his friends immediately rushed him to the Kalimpong Sub Divisional Hospital where he was declared brought dead.

The CRPF commandant Mr. B.K. Biswas said that as per the Doctors of Kalimpong Sub Divisional Hospital, the death might have occurred due to heart attack. After post mortem The body was later brought to the camp. All of us are very sad over the untimely demise of a close colleague and we betow our heartfelt homage to the departed soul.

Mr. Biswas also informed that Late Prasad’s body will be taken home to Gandhinagar in Gujarat tomorrow by flight from the Bagdora Airport.

Shanti Prasad belonged to the 68 CRPF Battalion and had recently been placed in Kalimpong on 3 August from Tinsukia, Assam.

Notably, more than a dozen company of the CRPF had been deployed in the month of August in Darjeeling Hills to maintain peace in the midst of the sudden call of a fresh Gorkhaland agitation by the regional GJMM Party. However in the third phase of the Gorkhaland agitation, so far, no violent confrontation have occurred between the agitators and the CRPF as the agitation have been staged largely peacefully. But even though a CRPF personnel today died while on duty amidst the agitation.

At the same time, the Kalimpong Police has registered an unnatural death case over the demise of the CRPF personnel.