Gulshan Chopra, a 28-year-old software engineer committed suicide by jumping from the ninth floor of his office building in Bellandur at the ring road in Bengaluru on Monday night. According to police Gulshan Chopra, a native of Jalandhar in Punjab, was working for Genpact, a software company located in Ecospace in Bellandur at the outskirts . Around 10 pm, he went to a toilet on the ninth floor of his office and jumped through a window, the police said.
According to police, security guards, who were on the ground floor, heard a noise found Chopra lying in a pool of blood. They alerted his colleagues, who shifted him to a nearby private hospital. He was declared brought dead, the police said.
A senior police officer said that Chopra came to work on Monday after returning from his native place. He had got engaged a month ago and the wedding was scheduled to take place in November. “His colleagues have told us that he was a normal person and was focused. He did not discuss any issues with them,’’ the officer said.
“We will speak to his parents to ascertain the reason for the suicide. We are trying to access his laptop and mobile phones to see if we can get any clues. All angles are being probed, including any harassment by his colleagues or senior executives in the company or friends. For now, nothing can be concluded,” said a police officer. The HSR layout police have registered a case.
Reacting to Chopra’s death, Genpact the software company said, “We are deeply shocked and saddened by Gulshan Chopra’s death. He was a good employee and performing well at work. Our heart reaches out to his family and we are supporting them in this hour of sorrow. We are working with the police to complete the investigation and are extending our full support to the authorities.”
He had been in Bengaluru working with Genpact for the last one year and 3 months. He was staying in a PG accommodation in Madiwala in the city with a man called Sahu as his roommate, a source in the police said.