Kolkata: The  body  of  Indian Armys first woman jawan Shanti Tigga was found hanging in a railway hospital in West Bengals Jalpaiguri district Tuesday.The 37-year-old Tiggas body was found in the toilet of a cabin at the Alipurduar Railway Hospital. A senior police officer said  it appeared to be a case of suicide.

Tigga, attached to the 969 Railway Engineer Regiment of the Territorial Army and posted at the Chalsa Railway station, was last week found tied to a post by the railway track at Deopani village and later claimed that she was  kidnapped  by unknown people.She was admitted to the hospital after that.

She was provided security and there were guards outside the cabin.Her son, who was also in the cabin, raised an alarm after she did not come out of the toilet for long. The guards found her  dead  when  they  broke  the  door   to  enter  the  toilet.

Tigga joined  the  Indian  Railways  in  2005  and  successfully cleared tests to join the Railway Engineer Regiment of the Territorial Army. Six years later, she became the first woman jawan of the Indian army.
A police officer said  Tigga  had  been accused for  she   had taken money from people on the pretext of getting them jobs.