A taskforce comprising senior officers constituted a few months back by the Home Ministry to look into cases of suicide in the central armed police forces (CAPFs) will also prepare a comprehensive report on incidents of fratricide, in which seven BSF personnel have been killed in two days, officials said on Monday.
The panel will prepare a “case study analysis and recommendations” not only for cases where troops take the extreme step of taking their lives but also on the subject of the targeting of comrades-in-arms by a trooper.
The last few incidents of fratricides that took place in these forces will be taken into account, sources told PTI.
The committee has been holding meetings, the latest was last week.
“The work is in progress,” an official privy to the development said.
A draft report will first be prepared and circulated among the CAPFs for their final comments, following which it will be submitted to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), a second official said.
The taskforce is headed by IPS officer V S K Kaumudi, the special secretary (internal security) in the home ministry, with a special/additional director general rank officer each from the BSF, ITBP, CISF, SSB and Assam Rifles as the members of the panel.
CRPF DG Kuldiep Singh earlier headed the panel when it was constituted in December last year.
Seven BSF personnel have been killed in two separate fratricide incidents that took place in Punjab and West Bengal on Sunday and Monday…
