A couple of hours before he allegedly shot himself in the head Tuesday, ASI Sandeep Kumar Lather met his friends at a tea stall near the Rohtak bypass. It was their “usual hangout” but “something was off, he looked troubled and distracted”. Then came a phone call, around 11.30 am, and Sandeep quickly excused himself, saying he was going back to his office.

“He lied,” Sandeep’s friend Sanjay Deswal, who was part of that group of friends, told The Indian Express Wednesday while describing their last meeting. Within an hour or so, Deswal came to know that Sandeep had “died by suicide”, found lying in a pool of blood at his uncle’s house in the middle of a field. The ASI left behind a 6m 28s video and a “final note” levelling serious allegations of corruption against Haryana IGP Y P

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