Trainee IPS Officer Drowns

A 60-year-old retired professor Ram Niwas Manav’s dream to make his son an IPS officer that he had earlier promised to his father, a freedom fighter, was shattered after an young trainee IPS officer Manu Mukt Manav drowned in a swimming pool under suspicious circumstances at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy in Hyderabad two days ago. An Indian Police Service (IPS) officer trainee, Manu Mukt Manav, died at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy at Sivarampally near here on Thursday night  after he entered the swimming pool on the academy premises. According to NPA officials, Manav along with another officer, entered into the pool after a get-together on Thursday night. But was drowned. He was shifted to a corporate hospital where doctors declared him brought dead. It was not clear how Manu drowned. NPA director Aruna Bahugana ordered a  probe into the incident. Rajendernagar police registered a case and launched an investigation. When NPA officials found Manu Mukt in swimming pool, he was clad in plainclothes instead of a swimming suit. Are trainee officers at the academy allowed to swim in the pool late in the nights? NPA officials have to clarify this.  The body was handed over to his family after postmortem was conducted at the Osmania hospital.  Manu Mukt hails from Tigra village in  Haryana. He secured 180th rank in the UPSC exam in 2012-13. Manu did his graduation from a college in Hisar and post-graduation from Punjab University. Manu Mukt’s grandfather Pandit Matadin was a freedom fighter. He wanted his son Ram Niwas Manav (Manu Mukt’s father) to become a police officer. However, Ram Niwas Manav  chose a different profession. To fulfill his father’s promise, Ram Niwas encouraged his son Manu Mukt to become an IPS officer.

By Moule Mareedu

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