70-year-old living alone found dead in Ballygunge Place flat

Kolkata | Friday | 22nd February, 2019

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KOLKATA: A 70-year-old man, who lived alone in his flat at posh Ballygunge Place , was found dead after police and neighbours broke open the apartment door lock late on Wednesday. They ruled out foul play.An earlier resident of Entally, Roy bought the 900-sq-ft flat on the second floor of a five-storey building at Ballygunge Place nine years ago, and had been living there alone since then. Neighbours said he had a brother in Canada, and two sisters, one of whom lived in Bangalore. Of late, he had been handling the accounts and maintenance fees for the eight flats in the building,” the neighbour said. His sisters claimed his body from the SSKM morgue on Thursday.Local councillor Sudarshana Mukherjee said she ran a group that took care of elderly Ballygunge residents but Roy was not registered..