Suicide non-cooperation
By Ria Sharma

Tragically, two Indian techies, Vishal (from Wipro) and Vikas (from HCL), took their lives last week.  Both chose to end their suffering by making it a point to come to work and then jump to their deaths.

While this news was reportedly by national newspapers like Times of India and Indian Express as well as TV stations, siliconindia.org went deeper to investigate these suicides.

The Silicon India report on the deaths of the Wipro and HCL engineers reveals a shocking fact. Both the companies do not seem to have offered full cooperation to the Indian police.

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In both the cases, Police have been trying to find the reason of the death as they could not find any suicide note or any threat related information till now. In the case of Vishal, police framed eight questions and sent them to the human resources department of Wipro, but even after 24 hours, they were unable to get any personal details of the dead man. However, an HR executive of Wipro said, "We have been directed not to reveal any information or photograph of the employee. It is just that he had quit the job and was serving the notice period."

A police officer said, "We are not ruling out murder. There are lots of unanswered questions and it is for Wipro to clear the doubts."

In the case of Vikas, Noida's Superintendent of Police (City) Ashok Tripathi said, "The HCL officials did not inform the police about the incident. Authorities at Max Hospital, where the victim was taken to, informed us.
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The callous attitude of a few Individual managers at these companies is shocking.