A 34-year-old executive director of a private company died of cardiac arrest while playing cricket in Piplani area, he suddenly got breathless while playing cricket in the evening on Tuesday and later declared dead when taken to hospital.
Police said that while chest pain was reported Yogesh Gupta friends took him to the hospital, where doctors declared him dead.
According to the police, the youth was addicted to cigarettes. The incident happened on Tuesday evening. After the PM on Wednesday, the police handed over the body to the relatives.
Yogesh Gupta hailed from Rewa and used to work in the health care company 'Phytocell Life'. He was the Executive Director in the company and used to live on rent in the Ashoka Garden area near Prabhat intersection in Bhopal.
One of his co-worker Satendra, who worked with him, told that on Tuesday evening he went to play cricket with over a dozen colleagues at Piplani Ground and after about 15 minutes that Yogesh ran to catch the ball he suddenly felt pain in his chest and fell.
After reaching home, there was a severe pain in the chest again. In a hurry, friends took him to Vedanta Hospital. Seeing the condition, doctors referred her to Charak Hospital. After this he was referred to Hamidia. Here the doctors declared him brought dead.
Investigating Officer ASI Bharat Singh Meena, who is investigating the case, told that he found several empty packets of cigarettes in the house. His friends also said that Yogesh was addicted to cigarette smoking. He used to smoke 30-40 cigarettes a day.
Singh said that the PM report has not come yet, so the real reason is not known. Preliminary investigation suggests it was a cardiac arrest.