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Alleged suicide by young AIIMS neurosurgeon

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Sunil Kumar was a third year student of M.Ch. at AIIMS
Body was found in his elder brother’s flat in Noida

NEW DELHI: A young neurosurgeon posted at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences here has allegedly committed suicide by injecting himself with an overdose of anaesthesia. The body was found in his elder brother’s flat in neighbouring Noida on Friday.

Thirty-five-year-old Sunil Kumar, a third year student of M.Ch. (Magister Chirgure), drove to the flat of his brother Subhash Kumar, who is a manager with Indian Oil Corporation, in Nilgiri-I Apartments in Noida Sector 34 on Thursday morning and allegedly committed suicide.

The Station Officer of the Sector 24 police station, Amarnath Gupta, said Dr. Kumar left home for work but drove straight to the flat that had been lying vacant since Subhash’s transfer to Aligarh last year. “He collected the keys from one of the neighbours, A. K. Jain, went inside the flat, took off his shoes and socks and injected himself with anaesthesia,” Mr. Gupta added.

“Not able to trace her husband, Kamna, herself a doctor at AIIMS, filed a ‘missing’ complaint with the local police station on Thursday. On Friday morning she along with her relatives reached the flat looking for Dr. Kumar. The door, bolted from inside, was opened with the help of a guard and the body was found inside the flat. No suicide note was recovered. Prima facie it appears to be a case of suicide,” said the police officer.

Subhash’s neighbour Mr. Jain said: “Sunil came to me around 11 a.m. and asked for the keys. It was quite usual for him and Kamna to visit the flat and so I did not suspect anything. I handed over the keys and it was the last time I saw him alive.”

While his colleagues maintained that Dr. Kumar appeared quite normal, Kamna said he had been feeling depressed for the past few days.

Dr. Kumar’s sister-in-law Savita said the family had no clue why he took the extreme step: “Both husband and wife were getting along well and never had any altercation.”

Dr. Kumar and Kamna fell in love during their college days and tied the knot three years ago. Kamna completed her MBBS from King George’s Medical College in Lucknow.

Dr. B. B. Mishra of Delhi’s Pant Hospital, who studied MS with Dr. Kumar in Kanpur, said: “He was a very friendly and happy-go-lucky person. I knew him since our college days. One of our common friends informed me about the incident in the morning. I could not believe that he had taken such a step.”

In a statement, the AIIMS administration described Dr. Kumar as “a bright student, well liked and trusted by all fellow residents, faculty and staff ”.

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