FORMER President of Atlas Cycles, Salil Kapoor, allegedly committed suicide on Tuesday by shooting himself at his house in Delhi’s A P J Abdul Kalam Marg. After receiving the information about Kapoor’s death, a police team reached his residence and found a suicide note from the spot. According to a police officer, Kapoor shot himself on the head with a licensed revolver. In the suicide note recovered from the spot, Kapoor purportedly mentioned a “financial burden” on him, the officer said. Four persons have been named in the suicide note recovered from Kapoor’s house, who have been accused of physically and mentally torturing the businessman. The Delhi Police has filed an FIR of abetment of suicide and said, the case is being investigated from all possible angles. According to an officer, a case under section 108 (abetment of suicide) of the BNS has been filed at Tughlak Road Police Station against the four named in the suicide note.

 

The officer said all four people, who are stated to be from Haryana, will be summoned to join the probe soon. Tthe police formed a board of three doctors and conducted the post mortemof his body before handing it over to his family members.His wife and three children were staying separately, the officer added.Kapoor’s manager and his family were staying with him in the three-storey building, the officer said, adding that Kapoor was immediately rushed to a hospital where the doctors declared him brought dead.In 2015, Kapoor was arrested from Uttarakhand by the Economic Offences Wing of Delhi Police in 2 cases related to cheating. amounting to Rs 9 crore.