Goa, Nov. 15 -- A 28-year-old police sub-inspector died by suicide on a railway track in Uttar Pradesh's Ballia district on Saturday evening, with preliminary investigations pointing toward alleged blackmail and marriage pressure from a woman, police officials confirmed on Sunday.

The deceased officer has been identified as Sandeep Kumar, a native of Sant Kabir Nagar. Kumar had been serving at the Chitbarhagaon police station in Ballia for the past 11 months. According to Ballia Superintendent of Police (SP) Iraj Raja, local police received an alert on Saturday night between 7:00 PM and 8:00 PM regarding an individual who had ended his life by lying down on the railway tracks. The incident first came to light through a memo filed by a ra...