A 23-year-old youth committed suicide by jumping out of the window of his 19-storey hotel room in Bandra on Monday evening.
The police later found a video that the youth had uploaded on his Facebook page minutes before taking the extreme step, calling it a ‘tutorial on how to commit suicide’.
According to the Bandra police, the youth, identified as Arjun Bhardwaj from Bangalore, jumped from his hotel room at Taj Land’s End hotel at around 4:30 p.m. He was taken to Lilavati Hospital where he died while under treatment.
The hotel management had already informed the Bandra police by then.
“He had checked into the hotel at 3 p.m. on Monday. He broke the glass of the hotel room window before jumping. We found nine short notes in his room indicating he was disturbed,” said Sanjay Kadam, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Bandra division.
Facebook page
The police later found a video on Arjun’s Facebook page, which he had recorded minutes before jumping. It shows Arjun dressed in a robe recording a video, calling it a tutorial with four steps.
The video, by Monday night, had received 2,600 views and 117 comments.
A picture of the view from Arjun’s hotel room window, showing the setting sun, uploaded before the video, has a cryptic caption saying, ‘A view to die for’.
Drug addict
Sources said Arjun’s suicide notes indicated that he was a drug addict and was fed up of his addiction and the damage that it had caused him.
The Bandra police have registered an accidental death report and are conducting inquiries.
