“I am sorry for my wife and son for leaving them alone. Today I was humiliated with sexual harassment allegations in the meeting.”
These were the last words of a senior executive Amit Kumar at a private company before he hung himself from a ceiling fan at his house in Gurgaon’s Sector 9 on Tuesday morning (August 30).
The executive’s wife has accused his colleagues as well as the company of abetment to suicide. The couple has a 5-year-old son.
According to some sources, on Thursday a female colleague had accused the 41-year-old executive of sexually harassing her.
The man commited suicide after he couldn’t take the humiliation and left a four page suicide note.
Police said they have started a probe after the executive’s wife filed a complaint. The police called in handwriting experts to study the four-page note apparently written by him.
“I never gave special treatment to any employee. I treated every employee equally… Whatever I am doing is due to allegations in the office. My family and relatives are not involved in this,” he wrote before his death.
The executive had joined the company, Optum Global Solutions, which facilitates healthcare services digitally, a month and a half ago.

The deceased man’s cousin brother Mohit told that the family was not aware that he was under stress and anxiety.
“We were unaware. His colleagues from the current company said something was going on at the office regarding the issue for the last 7-8 days, but he never said anything at home,” Mohit said.

“Because of night shifts, he was not available to meet during the day… Last Saturday, he met his brother, who said nothing seemed amiss,” Mohit said.
Earlier, the executive’s wife had said that she got a call on Tuesday morning from one of his colleagues, who told her he had sent a message saying he was about to kill himself. She ran upstairs and found his body hanging from the fan.
The company he worked for is still silent about the matter.
An FIR naming the company and the colleagues has been registered at the Sector 9A police station. The accused have been booked under Section 306 (abetment of suicide) of the IPC.
Further investigation is going on in the matter.