Deccan Chronicle

Researcher at ISB falls to death from 9th floor

- DC CORRESPOND­ENT

A 26-year-old research associate at the Indian School of Business in Gachibowli was found dead under suspicious circumstan­ces on Saturday night.

Police said that Chaitanya Bayanwala from Siliguri in West Bengal fell from the ninth floor of the apartment he was residing in.

According to police, Chaitanya and his two friends, Piyush and Swapnil, lived in a rented flat in Hill Ridge Springs, a gated community in Gachibowli.

On Saturday night, they decided to stay in and Piyush and Swapnil went out together to get some beer around 7.40 pm. On their return, a neighbour called Piyush and told him that Chaitanya fell from the flat.

They rushed to the spot and found Chaitanya lying in a pool of blood. They took him to Care Hospital in Madhapur where he was declared brought dead.

Police inquiries revealed that Chaitanya had moved into the flat nine months ago.

A 26-year-old research associate at the ISB in Gachibowli, Chaitanya Bayanwala, was found dead under suspicious circumstan­ces on Saturday night.

He was active on WhatsApp till 9.09 pm that night and accessing WhatsApp through the WhatsApp web on his desktop system.

“We could not access his mobile phone as it was locked. We suspect he accidental­ly fell from the balcony. We are looking for more clues,” said Gachibowli sub-inspector K. Rajendra.

There are no CCTV cameras in the apartment complex.

Based on a complaint from Swapnil, a case of suspicious death was registered by the police.

The body of the dead man was handed over to his relatives after postmortem.

The police is investigat­ing the case from all possible angles.

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Chaitanya Bayanwala

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