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NRI jumps to his death fearing job loss

London: A young NRI jumped to his death after fearing that he may lose his stockbroker job in a reputed German bank.

Anjool Malde, who worked for Deutsche Bank, leapt from the top floor of the eight-storey Coq d’Argent restaurant near the Bank of England on Sunday, just days before his 25th birthday.

According to a report in The Daily Mail, bosses had told him on Friday to leave his work early following “an inquiry into an IT matter.”

A close friend, who saw Malde, an Oxford graduate, at the weekend before he killed himself, said he was “obviously upset” but would not go into details about the nature of the problems he was having with his employer.

“All of us have heard he was about to be suspended.”

A spokesman at Deutsche Bank confirmed that Malde had been asked to leave work at 3 p.m. on Friday, but declined to give further details.

Malde’s parents Naina and Bharat are “deeply shocked” by the death of their only son.

Popularly known as Jools, he was said to be a big Michael Jackson fan and was upset by the star’s death.

He wrote on the Twitter site: “Anjool has cried twice this decade. Yesterday [Wednesday] and today[Thursday] over someone he never even met [though has listened to every day for 15 years].”

However, his website gave no indication of any personal crisis, listing his work status as “living the dream.”

‘Online businesses’

On his website, Malde claimed to have started “a number of online businesses” and had been co-editor of a business self-help book, Racing Towards Excellence, which was published last month by Leveraged Publishing.

He includes a long list of business skills, including “design, editing, entrepreneurship, event planning, graphic design, investment, leadership, management, marketing, public speaking, web design, writing.” Malde was second in the U.K. Graduate of the Year awards. — PTI

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