Gurgaon: A 37-year-old Agra resident, who was working for a Zurich-based R&D firm and living in Manchester for three years, was found dead floating face down in a hotel jacuzzi in the city on Monday evening after staff opened the room with a master key when he failed to respond to repeated knocks.The visiting techie had booked the hotel after dropping his friends at IGI airport on Sunday. Cops recovered a strip of pills from the room and are examining them.Pranjal Pathak was from Old Idgah Colony in Agra. He had arrived in India on Oct 24. He travelled to Rishikesh with a group of friends and later returned to Delhi to drop them. While his friends went back, Pathak stayed on to meet his fiancée, a police officer said.After shopping on Sunday with her, he booked the room at Orsum Hotel in Sector 53. He was staying in room 302 on the third floor and was scheduled to check out around 11.30am on Monday. When he did not check out or respond to hotel staff till the evening, they entered the room using the master key and found him unconscious.Cops from Sector 53 police station reached the hotel after being informed by the control room and sent the body for a postmortem examination. His family in Agra was notified. A forensic team also visited the spot and collected evidence.“Some tablets were found in the room. Police are examining the tablets to ascertain their nature and whether they were energy supplements or some other medication. Investigators are also scanning the hotel’s CCTV footage,” an officer said.The body has been handed over to the family after the autopsy on Tuesday. The cause of death has not been established so far. Police have initiated inquest proceedings, though no case has been registered.
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