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Police Book Four in Pune Builder’s Suspected Suicide at Hotel

The case rests on a handwritten note alleging a ₹15 crore cheat in the Prachit Heights project.

Overview

  • A First Information Report names Nathusingh, Satish and Bhagwan Rajpurohit, and Prahlad Choudhary for alleged abetment of suicide based on a family complaint and a note found in the room.
  • Ashok Milapchand Jain, 61, left his Salisbury Park home on May 9, after which relatives filed a missing-person report at Swargate police station.
  • CCTV footage showed Jain riding to Hotel Coronet on Apte Road, where police later opened a locked room and found him dead on May 10.
  • Officers documented vomit marks in several spots, which they said suggested possible poison consumption, and they cited an initial probe pointing to suicide.
  • The note and FIR allege the four associates cheated Jain of nearly ₹15 crore tied to the Prachit Heights project in Kondhwa and coerced a cut-rate deal, while police continue forensic tests and probe the case under section 108 of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita.