Overview
- Ashok Milapchand Jain, 61, left his Salisbury Park home on May 9 and was later found dead in a hotel room on Apte Road in Pune’s Deccan Gymkhana area.
- Hotel staff raised the alarm when he did not respond to knocks, and police entered the room with staff present and found him dead.
- Investigators noted vomit in several spots in the room, which led them to suspect he had consumed a poisonous substance.
- Officers recovered a note believed to be his that mentions financial and personal troubles, and they are verifying its contents and authorship.
- Police registered an Accidental Death Report, which is the standard entry for an unnatural death, as they run forensic tests and question relatives and people linked to his textile and sugar businesses.