Man jumps off GTB Hospital building

On the top of the building, at seventh floor, an unclaimed bag was found. The bag had a suicide note written in Hindi. The man claimed he was depressed.

A 24-year-old man allegedly committed suicide by jumping off the seventh floor of Guru Teg Bahadur hospital building on Monday evening. The man left behind a suicide note in which he has written that he was depressed because of his prolonged illness, said police.

Nupur Prasad, deputy commissioner of police (Shahdara), said that the police control room received a call at around 7 pm about a man who was lying dead in the basement of the hospital. The person is yet to be identified.

“The building was of Gyane and Child care. On the top of the building at seventh floor a unclaimed bag was lying. The bag was opened and a suicide note written in Hindi was found,” said Prasad, adding the man had jumped down from the seventh floor, leaving his bag behind.

In the note, Prasad said, the man has written that he was suffering from some ailment because of which he used to have unbearable pain in his head. “The man has wished that his body parts should be donated to others,” she added.

Police said that they examined CCTV cameras installed in the building. In the video footage, the man is seen walking alone with the bag on his shoulder. His body has been preserved in the hospital mortuary for identification, said the police.

Fake notes worth ~1 lakh was seized in January, which went up to ~2.96 lakh in February and ~4.60 lakh in March. In April, it spiked to ~20 lakh, which came down to ~6.98 lakh the next month. There was a lull in July but the BSF’s 24 battalion recovered fake currency notes worth ~5.20 lakh in a single operation in Malda sector on August 22.

“The good news in all of this is that FICN syndicates are manufacturing the notes through offset printing machines as opposed to the past where cotton rag material was being used to produce the fake notes. Smugglers had been using the same to produce the notes through highly sophisticated machinery which is sold only to sovereign governments. This is not happening anymore,” said a senior BSF official.