Navi Mumbai builder commits suicide, suicide note blames stress over son’s NCB summons in drug case

Navi Mumbai / Jitin Shetty : Gurunath Chichkar (50), a builder from Navi Mumbai, allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a pistol in his office on Friday morning. The deceased was living on the fourth floor of a society at Kille Gavthan near Belapur Fort, while his office is on the ground floor of the same society.

Chichkar wrote a suicide note to his mother, in which he said that he was taking the drastic step as he could not bear the mental stress of being repeatedly called for questioning by the Mumbai NCB and Belapur police. His two absconding sons are alleged to be involved in the drug trade. ACP (Crime) Ajay Landge confirmed that the pistol used by Gurunath Chichkar was an unlicensed one. DCP (Zone-1) Pankaj Dahane informed that at around 6.30 am on Friday Chichkar told his wife that he was going to his office on the ground floor of the society. When he did not return for a long time, his wife went to check and found him lying in a pool of blood. She informed her brother, who informed the NRI Coastal Police. Chichkar was declared brought dead on arrival at the hospital.

DCP Dahane said, “Chichkar’s two sons Naveen and Dheeraj were called in for questioning by the Mumbai NCB after they were found to be involved in drug trade. Chichkar’s relatives have claimed that he was under severe mental stress for the past one month. The Mumbai NCB had busted a drug cartel last month in which its eldest Naveen Chichkar, who lives in London, was allegedly the kingpin of the drug trade. According to the Mumbai NCB, the cartel Drugs worth crores of rupees including cocaine and hybrid strains of hydroponic weed were sold to Australia and transported across the country and brought to Mumbai via air cargo. Also, Chichkar’s younger son Dheeraj was involved in the drug trade as he was recently found to be involved in drugs seized by the Navi Mumbai Anticorruptics Cell team.”