A 54-year-old sub-inspector attached to the Kothrud police station shot himself in the head with his service revolver at a hospital, 15 minutes after hearing about his mother’s death yesterday.

Bhanudas B Shinde, a resident of Kothrud, took the extreme step in a room at the cardiac care unit of the hospital after his mother Janabai (84), who was suffering from multiple ailments, had a cardiac arrest and died at the Ratna Memorial Hospital at 12.20 pm yesterday.