An employee of a multinational technology company fell on the treadmill while exercising on Friday morning. He was rushed to a hospital in Salt Lake and declared brought dead on arrival. The body of 31-year-old Amar M was sent for post-mortem while the police informed his Mysore based family of his death.
The investigators learnt that Amar's colleagues suddenly saw him lying on the treadmill, after which he was rushed to a private hospital near Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan Stadium. The doctors at the hospital informed the police that he had probably died due to a sudden unexpected loss of heart function and thus fainted and added that it is probably a case of cardiac arrest.
"The employee was exercising in a gymnasium on the fourth floor of DLF Tower-1 in New Town with his colleagues when the incident took place at around 8:15 am. The doctors informed us that the deceased employee had previously undergone an open-heart surgery, but they were not certain about when exactly it had happened. The police also found stitch-marks on his chest," said a police source.
New Town police also learnt that Amar had been staying in an apartment along with five of his colleagues. "We are waiting from his family members to arrive in Kolkata. No complaint has yet been lodged," the police source added.
The doctors of the private hospital, however, told the police that they had found superficial injuries on the deceased. They claimed that it was difficult for them to spot internal injuries before the autopsy report came in.
The investigators, however, reached Amar's New Town residence and interrogated his housemaid. They then arrived at the gymnasium in DLF Tower-1 to interrogate his colleagues.
"It is an office gymnasium, so only the employees were permitted to enter it. We have to talk to the gymnasium trainers to find out if Amar's physical condition was properly assessed before granting him admission or not," said the source.