‘Humiliated in meeting’: Exec wrote before hanging himself

Gurgaon: “I am sorry for my wife and son for leaving them alone. Today I was humiliated with sexual harassment allegations in the meeting.”
Scribbled in a note, these were the last words of a senior executive at a private company before he hung himself from a ceiling fan at his house in Gurgaon’s Sector 9 on Tuesday morning.
The executive’s wife has accused his company and colleagues of driving him to suicide. The couple has a 5-year-old son.
Sources said on Thursday that a colleague had accused the 41-year-old executive of sexually harassing her.
Police said they have started a probe after the executive’s wife filed a complaint and have called in handwriting experts to study the four-page note apparently written by him.
“I never gave special treatment to any employee. I treated every employee equally… Whatever I am doing is due to allegations in the office. My family and relatives are not involved in this,” he wrote before his death.
The executive had joined the company – which facilitates healthcare services digitally – a month and a half ago after working in the telecom industry for over a decade.
The executive’s cousin Mohit told TOI the family was not aware that he was “under strain”.
“We were unaware. His colleagues from the current company said something was going on at the office regarding the issue for the last 7-8 days, but he never said anything at home,” Mohit said.
The executive had met his brother, who lived next door, just last weekend.
“Because of night shifts, he was not available to meet during the day… Last Saturday, he met his brother, who said nothing seemed amiss,” Mohit said.
Earlier, the executive’s wife had said that she got a call on Tuesday morning from one of his colleagues, who told her he had sent a message saying he was about to kill himself. She ran upstairs and found his body hanging from the fan.
The company he worked for did not respond to requests for comment.
An FIR naming the company and the colleagues has been registered at the Sector 9A police station. The accused have been booked under Section 306 (abetment of suicide) of the IPC.