A 22 year old civil services aspirant, who had cleared his prelims exam, allegedly committed suicide by hanging in Northwest Delhi’s Mukherjee Nagar.

 According to the police, the deceased has been identified as Deepak Kumar Meena, resident of Dausa in Rajasthan, who arrived in Delhi in July this year to prepare for the UPSC mains exams which was 10 days away. He has been missing since September 11.

 Deputy Commissioner of Police (Northwest) Jitendra Kumar Meena said, “On September 20, the day the exams began, the body of the 22-year-old UPSC aspirant was found hanging from a tree in a forest area near a coaching institute library in Northwest Delhi’s Mukherjee Nagar,” adding that prima facie it appears, that he had committed suicide due to the pressure of exams. However, the reason can be ascertained with certainty after the investigation is over.

 He stated that his body was found in a wooded area near Dussehra Ground. Deepak had cleared the UPSC prelims exam and was preparing for the mains exam at a private coaching institute in Mukherjee Nagar.

 During the course of police investigation, his phone was searched and it was found that Meena had searched material related to suicide on Google and YouTube. While some students were suspecting murder as a liquor bottle was found at the crime scene, the DCP stated that CCTV footage has confirmed that he went to buy the liquor himself.

 Further, acccording to police, CCTV footage from the day he went missing showed Deepak holding his bag and walking alone towards the area where his body was found later.

However, no suicide note has been found yet. The body of the deceased was taken to Babu Jagjivan Ram Memorial Hospital for post-mortem which shows that it was a case of suicide by hanging. “In the post-mortem report, no external injuries or other marks were found on the body,” he said.