Olympus MD found hanging in Gurgaon

Gurgaon, February 21: A Japanese national and managing director of Olympus Medical Systems committed suicide inside a children's park in a luxury high-rise apartment complex in Gurgaon's Sushant Lok on Monday.

Tsutomi Omori, 49, was discovered hanging from the iron railings of a boundary wall inside a children's park in DLF The Icon apartment complex in Sector 43-Sushant Lok by a gardener at around 8.30am on Monday. Police have recovered two suicide notes written in Japanese. While one of them was meant for Omori's family the other note only said "I am sorry for bothering you" in Japanese.

According to the police, Omori worked at Olympus Medical Systems at an office on MG Road and had been living alone on the 8th floor of C block in a company flat for the last two years.

Omori's colleagues described him as a strong-willed person, who was unlikely to have taken such a drastic step.

While residents of The Icon -- 70 per cent of whom are foreigners -- seemed shocked to hear about the incident police officials said it appeared that Omori had committed suicide on Sunday night. They added that security guards in the complex had remained unaware of the incident until a gardener spotted Omori's body on Monday morning.

"I went into the children's park in E-Block to trim some shrubs when I noticed a body hanging from the boundary wall. I immediately informed the security control room," said Ram Kumar, the gardener who discovered the body.

The police soon arrived along with employees of Olympus who helped to translate the suicide notes which were written in Japanese.

"We have informed the Japanese embassy about the incident. The victim's body has been sent for a postmortem," said Maheshwar Dyal, DCP (East).

Last September another Japanese national commited suicide in Gurgaon. Kishi Takahiro, 27,was found hanging from the ceiling of his apartment in Beverly Park, which he shared with two colleagues, on September 19, 2011.