Howrah: A 28-year-old Dum Dum resident, who worked as an executive
engineer at National Highway Authority of India (
NHAI), reportedly jumped off
Bally bridge into the
Hooghly around 4pm on Tuesday. His body is yet to be traced.
The youth, identified as Trinjan Kusari, studied civil engineering from
Jadavpur University and did his MTech from
IIT Madras. He came walking on the Bally Bridge from the Howrah-end towards Kolkata when suddenly he jumped off, witnesses told police.
The bridge has waist-high guard rails, making it easily negotiable. The witnesses said the youth was decently dressed and nothing looked out of the way.
Cops from the Bally police station found an abandoned bag on the bridge’s sidewalk, from where he jumped off. From the papers and a smartphone found in the bag, they found he was a Dum Dum resident and that he was not married. They did not find any suicide note.
The cops alerted the river traffic police and a search for the body was launched. But it was yet to be found even after two hours. A search would be held on Wednesday, said DCP (Port) Waqar Raja.