New Delhi:

The body of a UPSC aspirant from Rajasthan’s Dausa was discovered hanging in a forested area of Delhi’s Mukherjee Nagar on September 20, police said. The aspirant, Deepak, had been missing since September 11 and was last seen on CCTV footage walking alone towards the forest.

Deepak had successfully cleared the UPSC prelims and was preparing for the mains exam. Although no suicide note was found at the scene, police are probing all possibilities.  

The police, alerted after Deepak’s prolonged disappearance, discovered his body near the bushes close to the Dussehra ground in Mukherjee Nagar. An autopsy of the body was conducted and an investigation into the case was initiated, police said. 

Thane:

A 28-year-old civil services aspirant allegedly committed suicide by jumping from the eight floor of a building in Thane city of Maharashtra, police said on Sunday.

The incident took place at around 8.30 pm on Saturday in Vartak Nagar area, they said.

The police found a ‘suicide’ note in the man’s house wherein he apologised to his family members saying he could not fulfil everyone’s high hopes and was finding it difficult to survive in this world, an official from Vartak Nagar police station said.

The official said that according to the man’s friends, he might have been depressed as he could not clear the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) exam and hence took the extreme step.

The man jumped from his house located on the eighth floor of a housing complex and fell on the ground. He was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was declared dead, he said.

The police found a suicide note in his house in which he stated, “It’s difficult for me to survive in this world, sorry to my parents, brothers and everyone. I couldn’t fulfil the very high hopes, I loved them and nobody is responsible for my death.” The body was sent to a government hospital for postmortem.

The Vartak Nagar police have registered a case of accidental death, the official said. 

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