A newly-recruited Odisha Finance Service (OFS) officer was found dead under mysterious circumstances in his residence at Dumduma here on Sunday night, a day before he was to join the service at the Treasury Office here on Monday.
The deceased Abhilash Swaroop Mahapatra was a native of Titilagarh in Balangir district. He was residing with his family in Phase-4 of Dumduma Housing Board Colony. He locked himself in a room of the house on Sunday evening and didn’t respond despite repeated knocks at the door by his wife.
With the help of neighbours, Mahapatra’s family members broke open the door and found him hanging from a ceiling with a dupatta. He was rushed to the Capital Hospital, where a doctor declared him dead.
Police handed over the body to his family after postmortem, following which the last rites were performed at the Swargadwar in Puri.
Police have registered an unnatural death case into the incident and started an investigation to ascertain the circumstances under which Mahapatra took the extreme step.
Mahapatra, who had earlier been working in a bank, was recruited in the OFS service a few months ago.
