24-year-old boy leaps to death, live streams on Facebook before committing suicide

April 4, 2017

Mumbai, Apr 4: In a most chilling scene of suicide, 24-year-old Arjun Bharadwaj took his life by jumping from his 19th floor room of a posh Bandra hotel, but not before posting videos of his activity prior to the act. Bharadwaj went live on Facebook, informing the world that he was about to end his life. The police have asked TV channels not to telecast the video.

bhardwajCool and composed, the Narseemonaji College student was seen sipping wine straight from the bottle. He said he would first drink his favourite wine and eat bacon pasta. All through, Bharadwaj was constantly smoking. Then, he got emotional and admitted that he had lost count of the steps he would take next. He then switched off the link, saying he obviously couldn’t record what he was about to do.

The police later found Bharadwaj lying in a pool of blood below, the glass panes of his room’s window shattered. The cops later learnt that Arjun Bharadwaj is from Bangalore and his father is a businessman from the tech city.

The cops have found a suicide in his hotel room. “I am a drug addict and I don’t want to live anymore,” the note said. After which he is believed to have taken the fatal leap after breaking the glass panes of the window.

Security guards at the hotel heard a loud thud. Rushing to the site, they found the boy lying in a pool of blood. “The security guard informed the management of the hotel. They went on the 19 floor and saw that Bhardwaj had broken the window glass before taking the extreme step,” said a senior officer from Bandra police station.

“Bharadwaj had checked in the wee hours of Monday. No one saw his exit the hotel after that. We indentified the boy from the documents he had submitted during check-in. We have contacted his parents in Bangalore,” the police officer added. The cops took the body to Leelavati Hospital where he was declared brought dead.

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