An SSB Battalion personnel was found hanging in his Government quarters at Rental Colony under the Nayapalli police limits here on Friday.
The deceased was identified as Krushna Chandra Senapati (44), who hailed from Abhayamukhi under the Balipatna police station.
On being informed about the incident, police reached the spot, recovered the body for postmortem and initiated an investigation to ascertain the circumstances under which Senapati died.
Though the reason behind the death was yet to be known, it was being suspected that he took the extreme step of killing himself by hanging due to mental stress.