India, Oct. 14 -- Haryana Police assistant-sub inspector (ASI) Sandeep Lathar, 41, was found dead after he allegedly shot himself with his service revolver at Ladhot village in Rohtak district on Tuesday afternoon, police said.

Lathar was part of the Rohtak CIA-2 team that intercepted and caught then IG Y Puran Kumar's associate Sushil Kumar, an exemptee assistant sub inspector, on October 6 on corruption charges following a complaint by liquor contractor Praveen Bansal.

Rohtak superintendent of police Surendra Singh Bhoria told reporters at the crime site on the Ladhot-Dhamar road: "This was a hardworking ASI of our police department, Sandeep. He was posted in the cyber cell. He was honest and hardworking. His body has been found. A fo...