A 26-year-old-man committed suicide at the SDM office at Kalkaji by hanging from the ceiling fan in the storeroom situated on the third floor of the office on Monday. Police said a suicide note has been recovered from the spot where the deceased had written that he had taken the extreme step as he could not do anything for his family.
Deputy Commissioner of Police, south-east district, Romil Baaniya said the deceased has been identified as Rahul Kumar Prasad, a resident of A-14B, Chattarpur extension in south Delhi, who used to work as a data entry operator at the Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) office situated in Kalkaji, Tughlaqabad institutional area.
" Rahul hung himself from the ceiling fan at the storeroom, which is at the third floor of the SDM office," said DCP Romil Baaniya adding," We have initiated inquest proceedings under section 174 Crpc and are probing the matter from all angles,"
On Monday, a non-working day, Kumar had gone to his office and told the guards that he had some work, police said.
He then went to the storeroom tied the knot at the ceiling and hanged himself to death. After a while when a worker went to the storeroom, he saw Rahul hanging from the ceiling and raised an alarm, the police official added.
The guards immediately came over and made a call to the police. A PCR reached the spot, took the body down and took him to the nearby hospital, where doctors declared him brought dead on arrival. Police said the body has been sent for post-mortem examination thereafter.
Further investigation in the matter is on.