A 31-year-old father of one, a mason by profession, was found hanging in a building under construction in Bansdroni on Monday morning, with police suspecting suicide driven by financial crisis.

Sudhamoy Mondal, a resident of Paschim Anandapally in Regent Park, was found hanging in the building where he had been working for the past few days.

Police said he had used a bunch of insulated wires to hang himself from the ceiling of a room where he was involved in paint work.

A plastic bucket, which was apparently inverted and used for reaching the noose hanging from the ceiling, was found at the spot.

The police said Mondal did not leave any suicide note. He is survived by his wife, an 11-month-old child, his parents and two siblings.

Mondal’s father — a rickshaw-puller — has not earned anything in the past one-and-a-half months because of restrictions on public transportation as a precaution against Covid.

“The cause of his suicide is yet to be ascertained. It is apparent the family is in an acute financial crisis and in debt. The victim was working as a paint mason at a building under construction at 533 Pirpukur Road. But his earnings were hardly enough to support his family, especially because his father is unemployed,” said an officer of Bansdroni police station.

The family has not filed any police complaint. The body has been sent for post-mortem.

At least two other persons committed suicide in the city in the past week, unable to put up with the financial crisis and uncertainly because of employment or reduced income amid the pandemic.

A homemaker had committed suicide last week unable to cope with the unemployment of his son and inadequate income of her husband, which was apparently lesser than their monthly house rent.

An employee of a pharmaceutical company, who had lost his job during the lockdown last year and was forced to sell plastic bags in shops for a living, had committed suicide, leaving behind his wife and two children.

Jnaneswari train accident

The CBI on Monday got court’s permission to conduct a DNA test on Amritava Chowdhury, who was declared dead in the Jnaneswari train accident 11 years ago and was found alive last week.

Relatives of another Jnaneswari victim, Prasenjit Dutta, met CBI officers saying they could not identify Dutta’s body.

If Chowdhury is alive, they said, the body handed over to his family could have been Dutta’s.