Bhubaneswar: A Block Development Officer (BDO) was found hanging in his official residence in Odisha’s Balasore district on Thursday.
As per reports, Simulia BDO Biswa Ranjan Mohanty, had gone to his office in the morning and did his official works. He came back to his official residence in the afternoon to have lunch.
Following the lunch break, Mohanty was scheduled to attend an official meeting on video-conference in his chamber. As he did not turn up for the meeting, the employees of his office went to his residence to enquire about him.
They found his house locked from inside and knocked on the doors. After repeated knocking, there was no response from Mohanty. Suspecting something foul, the employees broke open the front door to find him hanging from ceiling fan in his bedroom.
On being informed a team from Simulia police station went to Mohanty’s residence and sent the body for post-mortem. They have registered a case of unnatural death and started investigation.
Meanwhile, the BDO’s father Narendra Mohanty has alleged that his son committed suicide due to heavy work pressure. He said Biswa had joined as Simulia BDO around two months back. Since then, he had not gone to his village as the district collector did not grant him leave.
On the other hand, the collector refuted the allegation and said the BDO had never applied for leave since his posting in Simulia. Biswa was supposed to retire from service after two and a half years.
