A Central Reserve Police Force ( CRPF) trooper shot himself dead outside the Indian parliament Monday in New Delhi in a case of suicide, Indo-Asian News Service reported.

Sources with CRPF said trooper Vipul Shah shot himself in the chest. "He was dead on arrival," a doctor at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital said.

"A little before 8 a.m., a bus carrying CRPF troopers arrived outside the parliament building. All the jawans got out, but Vipul Shah remained inside," a security official at Parliament House said.

"A gunshot was then heard. He was found bleeding and rushed to the hospital where he was declared dead," the officials added.

CRPF officials had earlier said it was an accident, probably caused by the safety-catch of Shah's rifle slipping. Shah joined the Indian force in 2003.

Source: Xinhua