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Trainee Pilot, 21, Found Hanging in Kolkata Flat as Police Examine All Angles

Investigators await autopsy results after recovering a device displaying 'LOST' from the unused family property.

Overview

  • Police identified the deceased as Soumyaditya Kundu, who had recently returned from flight training in South Africa.
  • After leaving home on Wednesday afternoon and not answering calls, his location was tracked to an unused second-floor flat at 262 C.R. Avenue owned by an uncle.
  • His parents broke open the locked door and found him hanging, after which Girish Park police recovered the body and sent it for post-mortem.
  • A case of unnatural death has been registered, with officers treating it as a provisional suicide assessment while analyzing all possibilities.
  • Family members said Kundu had been unusually quiet since his return and had consulted a doctor, and police are looking into reports of a relationship issue as a potential line of inquiry.