In another case, a 63-year-old woman also took her life. No suicide note has been recovered. In the first case, the deceased has been identified as Sanjeev Radheshyam Rajpal. Rajpal was a resident of Uttam Nagar, Delhi. He shot himself with a pistol in the hotel.

“When the waiters went to knock on the door, he did not answer. They broke open the door and found Rajpal in a pool of blood, and a pistol near him. The waiters had gone to check as Rajpal was scheduled to check out of his room yesterday,” said Chandrakant Thorat, senior inspector of Thane Nagar police station. The hotel where the suicide took place lies just outside the Thane station. Rajpal is a dealer in mobile accessories in Delhi and had come to the city on January 8.