Police to quiz IIT Kanpur girl in techie 'suicide' case

A city police team will interrogate a girl student of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, in connection with the alleged suicide of a software engineer from Safdarjung Enclave in south Delhi.

Police said the girl’s number showed up while checking the cellphone call details of the victim. Summit Parihar went missing on September 9 from his house, and was found dead on railway tracks at Hodal in Palwal, Haryana.

Police said he used to speak to the girl, a Kolkata resident, for hours on the phone. According to the call details, on September 7 Sumit spoke to the girl for almost six hours and on September 8, they talked for around eight hours. A Delhi Police team will leave for Kanpur to question the girl.

His death on the railway tracks seems mysterious as he left the house wearing slippers and without his wallet. “What made him to leave his wallet at home? We are probing this and other angles too,” said a police officer.

Police have also questioned his friends and colleagues, and found that he was a simple man and had cordial relations with everyone. Police officials at Palwal said the body of a youth was found on railway tracks on September 10. Since it was not identified for three days, the Government Railway Police cremated the body. His father identified the body from his clothes.

A missing person complaint was also filed with Safdarjung Enclave police station on September 10. Parihar, who hails from Mathura, was staying at his uncle’s house in Krishna Nagar. He worked in a software company in Noida sector 63. Police are waiting for the post-mortem report.