New Delhi, December 3
A probationary IPS officer in Karnataka died in a road accident when he was heading to report for work in Hassan district of Karnataka.
Harsh Bardhan, a native of Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh, was with the Karnataka cadre of the Indian Police Service (IPS).
Bardhan was at the Karnataka Police Academy in Mysuru for training. He reportedly left to report for duty in Hassan City in a police jeep along with a driver provided by the department.
The police informed that the vehicle’s tyre reportedly burst on the way, causing the driver to lose control.
Passersby shifted the two to a hospital but Harsh Bardhan did not respond to the treatment and succumbed. The driver has sustained minor injuries.
He had completed a four-week course in Mysuru and was about to take up practical training in Hassan for the next six months.
Bardhan was a civil engineering graduate. His father was a Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) in Madhya Pradesh,