It is shocking and a sad end to a brilliant officer: D Sivanandhan, former Mumbai city cop

D Sivanandhan, former police commissioner of Mumbai says he is unable to believe that Roy has killed himself. “I haven’t been able to speak to anyone after hearing the news as it is not sinking in that Roy could commit suicide. I am shaken by this terrible news,” said the former top cop.



When Sivanandhan was the commissioner of police, Mumbai, Roy was the joint commissioner of police. “Roy’s office was on the second floor and mine on the first. Every day he would come to meet me and we spoke for some time. We also lived in the same building,” he said.



It was Sivanandhan who asked Roy to set up the cyber crime cell in Mumbai. “He was a fine officer and very competent. We inaugurated the cyber crime cell in a big manner,” he said.



Sivanandhan says that Roy came from a good family background. “He was a Mumbai boy who studied at Campion School and then went to St Xavier's College. He was 12 years younger to me who did his IPS in 1988. Roy was very likeable. I remember him as a very good human being who was an upright officer,” he said.



Once Roy came to know he was afflicted with cancer, he became a recluse, said Sivanandhan. He did not keep in touch with many from the force like he would earlier. “But I think this is what could happen when you battle cancer,” he said.



Sivanandhan said that he no one can be blamed for what Roy did the pain must have driven him to do what he did. “It is shocking and a sad end to a brilliant officer,” he said.