LUCKNOW: Four days after the personal secretary to an IAS officer shot himself in the head in his office, he succumbed to injuries on Friday.
Vishambhar Dayal, 52, was undergoing treatment at RML hospital after he shot himself with his service revolver on August 30 in his Bapu Bhawan office.
He was posted in the office of the additional chief secretary, urban development.
Police had recovered a note from his room in which he had blamed his sister’s in-laws for lodging a police case against him over a property dispute.
The bullet was lodged in the right side of Dayal’s head. Battling in hospital for four days, he underwent surgery on Friday but did not survive.
He was in a comatose state where all vessels in the brain were damaged.
“We worked on Dayal but excessive blood loss and injury to the brain failed us,” a doctor said
ADCP central zone Rajesh Srivastava said that inquest and postmortem examination had been done and all evidences were preserved in the room where Dayal shot himself.
His smartphone, cartridges and the revolver were also recovered.
ACP Hazratganj Raghvendra Mishra said that on the day of the incident, Dayal had reached his eighth floor office around 1.30pm. At 1.45pm, staff Sanjay Yadav heard a gunshot from Dayal’s room which was locked from inside.
The door was broken and Dayal was taken to Civil hospital from where he was referred to RML hospital.
Thereafter, Unnao police had ordered suspension of SHO Auras Hariprasad Ahirwar and sub-inspector Tamizuddin for dereliction of duty. The cops had not registered an FIR against Dayal’s in-laws, investigation had found.
