Archive · 20 Sep 2026
Kolkata Police Commando Found Dead at Alipore Training School
Deepak Tamang was a 49-year-old Kolkata Police commando.
He was found hanging inside a bathroom at a police training school in Alipore on Saturday morning.
His colleagues discovered him after the bathroom had been locked for some time.
They opened the door and took him to a hospital.
Doctors there said he had died.
Police sent his body for a post-mortem examination.
Officers are speaking with people who knew him to understand what happened.
Police said he did not leave a note explaining his actions.
Kolkata Police commando Deepak Tamang, 49, was found hanging inside a bathroom at the police training school in Alipore.
The discovery was made at about 9:50 a.m. on Saturday by colleagues who broke open the locked bathroom door.
Tamang was taken to SSKM Hospital, where doctors declared him dead.
Police said he was found hanging from a towel wrapped around a pipe on the bathroom’s third floor.
Investigators are speaking with his colleagues, and police said no suicide note was found.
- Who
- Deepak Tamang, a 49-year-old Kolkata Police commando.
- What
- He was found hanging inside a bathroom and was later declared dead at a hospital.
- When
- Saturday morning; the discovery was made around 9:50 a.m.
- Where
- The third-floor bathroom of the Kolkata Police Training School in Alipore, Kolkata.
- Why
- Police are investigating what may have prompted the apparent suicide; no suicide note was found.
- Deceased
- Deepak Tamang
- Age
- 49
- Affiliation
- Kolkata Police commando unit
- Discovery time
- Around 9:50 a.m. on Saturday
- Location
- Kolkata Police Training School, Alipore
- Hospital
- SSKM Hospital
- Investigation
- Police are questioning close colleagues; the body was sent for post-mortem