A massive search operation has been launched in the sea to trace the 32-year-old doctor who has been missing since Monday night, an officer said. He added that the doctor is a resident of Kalamboli in Navi Mumbai working at a state-run hospital
A massive search operation has been launched in the sea to trace the 32-year-old doctor who has been missing since Monday night. Representational pic
A doctor working with a state-run hospital jumped from Atal Setu, the country's longest sea bridge between south Mumbai and Navi Mumbai, police said on Tuesday.
A massive search operation has been launched in the sea to trace the 32-year-old doctor who has been missing since Monday night, an officer said.
He said the doctor is a resident of Kalamboli in Navi Mumbai working at a state-run hospital in Mumbai.
He allegedly jumped into the sea after parking his car on the bridge.
Officials at the Atal Setu control room received a call around 9.45 pm, following which a team from the Navi Mumbai Police and other search and rescue agencies rushed to the spot, the officer said.
Police found a car with the doctor's mobile phone in it, he said, adding that CCTV footage confirmed his identity.
Until Tuesday evening, the search operations to trace the missing doctor have been underway for more than 12 hours.
In a similar case in February, a 50-year-old school teacher, who was allegedly harassed over a loan, had also jumped from Atal Setu at Ulwe, close to the Nhava Sheva-end of the bridge.
The victim was a resident of Alibaug in Raigad district in Maharashtra. According to police, the teacher had borrowed money through an instant loan app the previous month to settle some debts and was struggling to repay an outstanding amount of Rs 12,000.
His family informed the police that, unable to pay, he had been receiving calls from the loan app's recovery agents for over a week. The agents had threatened to publicly shame him and had circulated morphed images of the primary school teacher among his contacts and in WhatsApp groups.
Surveillance camera footage captured the moment, prompting police to launch a search operation. His body was discovered the following day near Nhava creek in Navi Mumbai, approximately 12 kilometres from where he had jumped.
In September, a 35-year-old banker from Pune also died by suicide at the Atal Setu Bridge. The police revealed that the banker had been in Mumbai to visit a relative. It is believed that work-related stress may have led him to take the step.
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(With PTI inputs)
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