A 40-year-old doctor in the AIIMS’s Paediatrics department was found hanging at his residence near the hospital in Delhi.
The decomposed body of Mohit Singhla was found in a house in south Delhi’s Gautam Nagar.
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The police control room was informed by a caller at around 3 p.m. that a foul smell was coming from the house, and a team reached the spot.
They entered the house to find the body in a room, locked from the inside, on the second floor.
The lock was broken and the body was taken out, and identified as of Singhla.
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DCP, South Delhi, Atul Thakur, said that initial investigations had revealed that Singhla had last worked on Tuesday.
Police suspect it to be a case of suicide due to depression, and that Singhla might have killed himself a day or two before. However, no suicide note has been recovered.
A resident of Haryana’s Panchkula, Singhla was residing in the place since 2006.
“We have initiated the proceedings under Section 174 of the CrPC,” the DCP said.