UK-based techie found dead in Gurgaon hotel jacuzzi after shopping with female friend

The deceased, Pranjal Pathak, was staying at Orsum Hotel in Sector 53.

GURGAON: A 37-year-old man from Agra, who worked for a Zurich-based R&D firm and had been living in Manchester for three years, was found dead floating face down in a hotel jacuzzi in Gurgaon on Monday evening.The deceased, Pranjal Pathak, was staying at Orsum Hotel in Sector 53. Hotel staff discovered him unconscious after opening his room with a master key when he failed to respond to repeated knocks. He was scheduled to check out around 11.30am on Monday.

Techie arrived in India on October 24, travelled to Rishikesh with friends

Pathak, a resident of Old Idgah Colony in Agra, had arrived in India on October 24. He travelled to Rishikesh with a group of friends and later returned to Delhi to drop them at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport on Sunday.While his friends returned, Pathak stayed back to meet his female friend, a police officer said.After shopping with his female friend on Sunday, Pathak booked a room at Orsum Hotel in Sector 53. He was staying in room 302 on the third floor.When he failed to check out at the scheduled time and did not respond to repeated knocks by hotel staff, employees entered the room using a master key and found him unconscious in the jacuzzi.

Pills recovered; cops scan CCTV footage

Police from Sector 53 police station reached the hotel after receiving information from the control room and sent the body for a postmortem examination. His family in Agra was informed.A forensic team also visited the hotel and collected evidence. Police recovered a strip of tablets from the room and are examining them to establish their nature.“Some tablets were found in the room. Police are examining the tablets to ascertain their nature and whether they were energy supplements or some other medication. Investigators are also scanning the hotel’s CCTV footage,” an officer said.The body was handed over to the family after the postmortem examination on Tuesday. The cause of death has not been established so far.Police have initiated inquest proceedings, though no case has been registered.