A 39-year-old doctor committed suicide by jumping off from the 8th floor of his flat in Evo apartments located at Sector-47 in Gurugram on Tuesday early morning around 3.30 am.
The victim was identified as Dr Surjit Kumar Saha who hails from Nepal but got Indian citizenship in 2005. The deceased was a liver transplant surgeon at the Medanta hospital in Gurugram.
Saha was living alone in his Gurugram flat while his wife Laxmi and six-year-old daughter lived in Kolkata. The couple had a love marriage in 2010, the police said.
"Saha jumped off from the balcony of his flat located on the 8th floor of the multi-storey apartment complex. He died on the spot. We suspect that the victim had some conflict with his wife and it could be a reason behind the extreme step. We have also recovered a suicide note from his flat in which he did not blame anyone for the extreme step," said assistant sub-inspector Mohan Puri, the investigation officer.
According to police, Saha was under stress as the couple had filed a mutual divorce petition in a local court and on Tuesday they had to attend their first court hearing.
The police said Saha and his wife had a conversation over the phone just before his suicide, in that conversation Saha told his wife, who was staying in Noida, that he would jump off from the window.
After hearing this his wife immediately informed the Gurugram police about the incident over the phone.
Police said further action will be initiated once they receive any complaint from the deceased’s family. The victim’s family will be reached in Gurugram on Wednesday morning.
“We are investigating the matter and will also get more inputs from his family. Further investigations are being conducted. The body has been kept in the mortuary for an autopsy,” he said.