RBI's Guwahati General Manager allegedly commits suicide in hotel room in Odisha
Bhubaneswar: A general manager of the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) Guwahati branch allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself at a hotel in Odisha's Jajpur, the police said on Friday.
The incident occurred at Chandikhola on Friday morning. The dead man has been identified as Asish Ranjan Samal, a resident of Naraharipur village in Jajpur district.
The man had come to his native village on Thursday to meet his mother. Thereafter, he went to Bhubaneswar to meet his wife, a doctor at the Kalinga Institute of Medical Science (KIIMS), and son, a 12th standard student.
The police said that Mr Samal had checked into the hotel on Thursday afternoon. On Friday morning, when the hotel staff knocked at the door of the room, he did not answer following which the hotel staff called the police. The police found him hanging from the ceiling fan of the room.
The identity of the dead man was ascertained by the documents provided by Mr Samal at the time of check-in, said the Inspector-In-Charge of Barachana police station, Deepak Kumar Jena.
Courtesy: IANS
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Compromised PM didn't sign trade deal with US, but a bargain for Adani's release: Rahul
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"Compromised PM did not strike a trade deal, but a bargain for Adani's release," Gandhi said in a post in Hindi on X, after reports that the US has agreed to settle the lawsuit that accused Adani of hiding alleged bribery.
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"How much more compromised can the PM get?" Ramesh asked.
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The ports-to-energy conglomerate had denied the allegations.
