Rajesh Sahni joined UP ATS in 2014.

LUCKNOW: In a shocking incident, a 1992 batch UP Provincial Police Service (PPS) officer Rajesh Sahani allegedly shot self with a service pistol inside his room at UP Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) headquarters in Gomtinagar, Lucknow on Tuesday.

According to police, Sahani reached the office at around 10.30 am and soon after asked his driver-cum-gunner Manoj to bring his service revolver kept in his official vehicle.

Around 12.45 pm he shot self.

A police official said he never used to carry a weapon but got issued the service pistol only few weeks ago.

He was recently looking after the case related to a Pithoragarh resident Ramesh Singh Kanyal who was arrested for helping ISI to bug the house of an Indian diplomat in Islamabad, Pakistan where he worked as a cook between 2015 and 2017.

Earlier, he had also in remained National Investigation Agency for around two years before joining the UP ATS.

He joined UP ATS in 2014.

