Pimpri-Chinchwad crime branch cop Javed Bagsiraj dies of heart attack while chasing drug peddler

Monday was a day of mourning for the Pimpri-Chinchwad city police. Javed Bagsiraj, a police employee with the crime branch, died of a heart attack. He had been part of an operation to catch two offenders who had come to sell drugs.

On the late night of Sunday (October 25), the anti-narcotics squad had laid a trap in the Pimpri area. Two offenders were due to arrive to sell narcotics. One was caught, but the other tried to flee. While chasing and trying to catch him, the crime branch employee suffered a heart attack and died.

Bagsiraj had received a tip late on Sunday night that two suspects would come to Sant Tukaram Nagar to sell MD drugs. He informed his seniors and set a trap near an internal society of Sant Tukaram Nagar. He caught one man who had come to sell MD. Meanwhile, the second associate of the arrested suspect began to flee. Bagsiraj ran after him. While running, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest and fell down.

Seeing this, his colleagues immediately admitted him to YCM Hospital in Pimpri. He suffered another heart attack there and died.

Bagsiraj's family originally hails from Karnataka. His father had come to Pune city, and Bagsiraj was born in Pune. He joined the Pune city police in 2010. For the first eight years he served at the Hadapsar and Mundhwa police stations of Pune police. When a separate police commissionerate was set up for Pimpri-Chinchwad in 2018, he moved to the Pimpri-Chinchwad city police. Here he worked first in Pimpri and then in the crime branch. He was currently posted with the anti-narcotics cell of the crime branch.

Bagsiraj is survived by his mother, father, brother, wife, a 12-year-old daughter and a 7-year-old son. He was buried on Monday afternoon at the Kasba graveyard. Senior officers say Bagsiraj was very hardworking and his work was commendable. His death has left the Pimpri-Chinchwad city police in mourning.