Did Goa transfer spur Air India engineer to commit suicide?

Mumbai: The neighbours kept knocking at his door last morning, but there was no answer. "About a couple of hours later we could sniff a whiff of a nauseating stench from Ritik Bhattacharya's flat. That's when we sensed something amiss and called up the police," said a neighbour, not wanting to be named.
An aircraft maintenance engineer with Air India, 30-year-old Bhattacharya was found hanging from the ceiling fan at his home in Air India Colony in Kalina, the police said.
"He had been living alone since January, after his wife delivered a baby and went to her parents' home in Kolkata," said a neighbour, Atul Sharma.
"He had applied for a transfer to Kolkata so he could be with his wife and newborn," Bhattacharya's colleagues told MiD DAY on condition of anonymity. "However, since he had actively participated in the strike called by Air India engineers after the Mangalore air crash in May, his pleas for a transfer fell on deaf ears. Instead, he was given a transfer order to Goa, where he was to join duty next month."
"His suicide note says nobody should be blamed for his death. We're awaiting the postmortem report," said Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone VIII) Satya Narayan Chaudary.
13/07/10 Vikas Mishra/MiD DAY

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