Pune: Engineer commits suicide by keeping WhatsApp status

Pimpri: During the course of the lockdown, suicides have increased in manifolds. Recently, a 25-year-old software techie committed suicide by jumping from the building soon after posting a message on his WhatsApp status. The incident took place on Wednesday in Moshi area of Pimpri-Chinchwad.  

The police have identified the deceased as Akshay Anil Potdar, who resided at Wood villa housing co-operative society and originally hailed from Sambhajinagar, in Wai from Satara district. A case of suicide has been registered with Bhosari MIDC police station under the jurisdiction of Pimpri Chinchwad police and is being probed. 

Speaking to Sakal Times Assistant police inspector Amardeep Pujari said, "Akshay was working in Chikhali based multinational company. The shocking and suspicious thing about his suicide was that deceased Akshay has committed suicide from the eleventh floor of the A-wing building in Phase III building where he does not live. He kept a WhatsApp status to take care of his mother, father, and sister in his absences and committed suicide. He was restrained by a security guard to go as well as he had demanded terrace keys of the society which he was not given by the guards."

"Subsequent, he came back to the security cabin recorded the work in society register, saying that there was work to be done in the housing complex. After a span of fifteen or twenty minutes later, Akshay went to the eleventh floor of the building. Akshay committed suicide by jumping down from there with a sack and mobile on his back. The reason for his suicide is still unclear and we are probing. We have not recovered any suicide note based on his status which he had uploaded a few minutes ahead of this harsh step from it seems to be a case of suicide," he added.