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Hyderabad Techie Commits Suicide After Self-Made App Fails To Take Off

Hyderabad Techie Commits Suicide After Self-Made App Fails To Take Off
TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY KATHARYN GILLAM 'US-ENVIRONMENT-CLIMATE-ENERGY-COP21-ELECTRICITY'A pipe on the hydrolysis wastewater treatment center is seen at DC Water's Blue Plains plant in Washington, DC, on November 23, 2015. The plant treats 370 million gallons (1,400 million liters) of dirty water from more than two million households on a daily basis, purging it with the micro-organisms that first ingest carbon and then transform nitrates into nitrogen gas, making the water is clean enough to flow into the Potomac River or the Chesapeake Bay without disrupting their fragile ecosystems. As for the feces, they're either recycled as compost or, in a new step implemented six months ago, are used to produce 10 megawatts of electricity -- that's the amount of power used by some 8,000 households. The solid matter that slips to the bottom of the treatment pools is collected and subjected to a Norwegian hydrolysis technique that is being used in North America for the first time. AFP PHOTO/NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP / NICHOLAS KAMM (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)
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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY KATHARYN GILLAM 'US-ENVIRONMENT-CLIMATE-ENERGY-COP21-ELECTRICITY'A pipe on the hydrolysis wastewater treatment center is seen at DC Water's Blue Plains plant in Washington, DC, on November 23, 2015. The plant treats 370 million gallons (1,400 million liters) of dirty water from more than two million households on a daily basis, purging it with the micro-organisms that first ingest carbon and then transform nitrates into nitrogen gas, making the water is clean enough to flow into the Potomac River or the Chesapeake Bay without disrupting their fragile ecosystems. As for the feces, they're either recycled as compost or, in a new step implemented six months ago, are used to produce 10 megawatts of electricity -- that's the amount of power used by some 8,000 households. The solid matter that slips to the bottom of the treatment pools is collected and subjected to a Norwegian hydrolysis technique that is being used in North America for the first time. AFP PHOTO/NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP / NICHOLAS KAMM (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)

TELANGANA -- A 33-year-old software engineer took the drastic step of ending his life by inhaling nitrogen gas at his house in S.R. Nagar area of Hyderabad yesterday, after a social networking application that he developed failed to take off.

In the suicide note, the techie said he decided to inhale nitrogen gas to end his life without any pain.

The victim, Lucky Gupta Agarwal, was a resident of Swarna Plaza Apartment in D.K. Road, Ameerpet.

Lucky's father Ashik Kumar Agarwal, a businessman, grew suspicious yesterday afternoon as his son did not wake up at his usual time.

As Lucky did not respond to repeated knocking, the family members forcibly opened the bedroom door and found him lying dead wearing a nose mask connected to a nitrogen gas cylinder.

The police found a suicide note in the bedroom. Lucky wrote in the suicide note that he was lucky to die in a painless way.

He also wrote that he adopted the suicide method of using nitrogen as it was the easiest and painless way.

The police seized a three-feet-long nitrogen cylinder with a pipe connected to the face mask. He had purchased the Nitrogen cylinder on 17 March.

The police also found that a few days prior to his death, Lucky has done ample online research on 'how to commit suicide without pain'.

His body was shifted for post-mortem and a case of suspicious death was registered under section 174 of the CrPC.

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