BAREILLY: A 28-year-old resident of

area in Lucknow, Anurag Deep Gupta, who was left stranded in Bareilly for 22 days due to the lockdown, allegedly committed suicide by hanging in a room at the guest house where he had been staying since March 28.

Gupta - who was on a business trip to Bareilly - was found hanging in the room number 105 of the guest house on Railway Warehouse road under

police station limits.

When Gupta didn't come out of the room in the morning, guest house manager Nadeem knocked at the door, but didn't get any response, said police. Suspecting that something was wrong, Nadeem peeped into the room through the ventilator and found Gupta hanging from the ceiling fan, said police, adding that Nadeem alerted them immediately.

Police said they tried to get access to Gupta's contact details from his mobile, but it appeared that the victim had deleted all mobile data before taking the extreme step.

The manager said Gupta made several attempts to return to his home, but in vain. He was upset and used to take meal only once in a day, he added.

Station house officer (SHO) of Subhashnagar police

Harishchand Joshi said police broke opened the door and sent the body for post-mortem examination. "We learnt from his ID card that he was a resident of Jankipurm area in Lucknow, and informed his family. It is not clear why Gupta had come to Bareilly. His father, who arrived here along with two other people from Lucknow, told police that his son never told him about his business. After the postmortem, the body was handed over to the family. They took the body to Lucknow in a private ambulance."

The SHO added that they did not register a case as the family was not interested in further investigation.