A 26-year-old doctor allegedly committed suicide at his rented accommodation in Old Rajinder Nagar on Monday. His body was found hanging from a ceiling fan in his room around 8.30 a.m. A note has been recovered in which he hasn’t mentioned the reason for ending his life.
The body of Sidhartha Sankar Mahapatra, a resident doctor at Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital and a native of Odisha, was found by his roommate Sachin Chavadi when he returned home after completing his shift.
On seeing the body, Mr. Chavadi called the police and then approached their landlord Ashok Kumar. “There was a note, a syringe and a medicine bottle near the body,” Mr. Kumar said.
In the note, the deceased said that happiness was missing from his life and he wasn’t “satisfied”.
‘Jovial person’
The deceased’s other roommate, Abhishek Tirkey, said that Mr. Mahapatra was a jovial person and never mentioned any problems.
“He used to be so happy. A few days ago, he received his first salary from the hospital and he celebrated. Recently, his elder brother got engaged. Though he couldn’t go to Puri, he was extremely happy and wished his brother on the phone,” he added.
Mr. Tirkey, however, did say that a woman that the deceased loved had recently gotten married. “He liked a girl for many years. She recently got married, but he never showed depression because of that,” he said.
The landlord said that the doctors had started living in his accommodation only two months ago, and “now this has happened”.
Mr. Mahapatra was a first-year post graduate student in the department of Anaesthesiology at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in RML hospital.
The police have initiated inquest proceedings and informed the family.