The body of an HRD Ministry official was found on the railway tracks in Palam, nearly three days after he went missing, police said on Thursday.
According to a senior police officer, Jeetendra Kumar Jha, an Indian Civil Accounts Service (ICAS) officer, went missing from Dwarka Sector 9 area on Monday morning after he had gone for a morning walk.
"His body was on Thursday found on the railway tracks in Palam. Prima facie it appears that he committed suicide. A purported suicide note, in which he said that no one was responsible for his death, was found from his pocket," Shibesh Singh the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) South-West district said.
Jha, a 1998-batch officer, was currently posted with the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD). local police had scanned the CCTV cameras of the nearby areas but in vain after Jha had disappeared mysteriously.
Following this, his wife called up her in-laws, who stay in Supaul in Bihar, who went in a state of shock.
Police said that Jha's wife had said that he had been disturbed for the past few days but never shared the reason for the same. He was earlier posted in Ministry of Information & Broadcasting and then in the Human Resources Development Ministry.
The relatives of the official were suspecting foul play. Jha got married in 2006 and has a son and a daughter. Police said the body has been sent for autopsy and further investigation is underway.