A 33-year-old software engineer committed suicide by inhaling nitrogen gas at his residence in SR Nagar in Hyderabad on Wednesday.

Lucky Gupta, a resident of DK Road, researched the easiest and painless method of suicide on the internet and finally decided to inhale nitrogen asphyxiation to end his life.

According to sources, Lucky, who was working with a software company, was depressed after he failed to successfully develop a social networking mobile application.

On Wednesday afternoon, his father grew suspicious as his son did not wake up at his usual time. When he entered Lucky's bedroom, he found him lying dead. Lucky was wearing a nose mask which was connected to a three-feet long nitrogen gas cylinder.

Family members found a suicide note, which read that he inhaled the poisonous gas to end his life without undergoing any pain.

The techie's body has been taken for a postmortem and a case of suspicious death has been registered under Section 174 of the CrPc.