The Most Shocking Moment of My Life
On the night of 7th December 2019, I faced the most shocking moment of my life. I and my roommate found the body of one of our flatmates who was dead for two days!
The thing is I live in a 4 BHK flat in Jasola Vihar in Delhi. In that flat 5 people live -
Room 1 — me and my roommate (let’s call him A)
Room 2 — only one person lives here, let’s call him V
Room 3 — Two people live here, D and P
Room 4 — empty (repairing work going on)
It all started on the night of 5th December, I reached home at around 9:30 PM and found that the main door of the house was locked. This was quite strange because we guys never lock the main door since we all come at different times and the maid and cleaning lady also come before anyone returns from the office. On the same day, D left for Pune.
At that time I thought maybe nobody is at home and that’s why someone locked the main door. So, I opened it with my keys and went to my room and found that my roommate was already inside. I asked him did you locked the main door? He said no he didn’t and he came at around 8:15 PM, at that time the main door was unlocked. We thought maybe D or P had left somewhere for the weekend and that’s why they locked the door. Also, Room 3 was also locked on that day.
Now that night passed, the next day I went for my office outing and my roommate went to his office. At night V left for Jaipur because of some Family problems.
Then on the night of 7th December at around 9 PM, we were waiting for our dinner to be delivered and at that time a person (let’s call him PK) showed up and said that he is looking for P. He told us that he hasn’t shown up to office for the past two days and is not answering anyone’s phone (office + home). He saw him last on the evening of 5th December when he left the office.
At that time we called D (roommate of P) to ask him whether he has any idea where he is or where can he go. He didn’t have any idea about that. We also called P’s phone, it was ringing but no one picked it up. We also talked to the caretaker and he also didn’t have any idea. Last time he saw P leaving for office on 5th December morning.
After 25 mins at 9:25 PM, the Uncle of P came to the flat and he said that he was looking for P. There was no communication from P to his family in the last two days. At that time we all got worried. Room 3 was locked so we talked to Nestaway’s area manager and he told me that we can only get the spare key of the room the next day once the office opens.
At that time we thought of listening for the phone ringtone near Room 3’s front and back door. We tried calling multiple times and found that something was ringing inside that room. We got really scared at that time and decided we gotta see inside the room somehow. First, we tried breaking the back door but it was too sturdy. Then we tried breaking the window near the back door.
So I, along with the Uncle of P pulled the window (it had two latches, one at the top and another at the bottom, but the only bottom one was locked). After pulling it too hard the bottom latch came off. I opened the window, the Uncle had turned the flashlight on his phone. We smelled some really fouled smell and saw that there was a body on the bed covered in a blanket!
The adrenaline rushed through my body and I was shocked and scared a lot! I almost had a mini heart attack. I said, “What the Fuck!”
The Uncle was shocked and panicked saying “Oh my God, Oh my God, he is dead!”.
He immediately called the police, we informed A, PK and house caretaker about the situation, everyone was shocked and we decided that no one will go inside the room until the police arrive.
We informed D and V about what happened and they were also shocked!
After about 30 mins a police sergeant and Ambulance showed up. They went through the back window and opened the door from the inside (the door can be locked from inside without a key and from outside with key).
The doctors who came with the police took the blanket off of P and found that his whole body was swollen and there were dark blue and black lines throughout his body and informed that he died because of some kind of poison.
Then the doctors left since they deal with the situation where someone is alive but now it had to be handed over to the police for the investigation.
After around 30 mins another police sergeant came, saw the body and took our statements. We also discussed if anyone knew about some personal problems or depression P was facing but he was really introverted and it didn’t felt like he had some personal problems going on.
The sergeants informed the crime team and they reached the flat after about an hour. They took some pictures, asked us the story so far and flipped the body upwards. No one was able to stand in the room without a mask, it was really stinking. They found that his whole body had swollen and there was blood coming out of P’s eye and white stuff coming out of his mouth (the sign of poison we usually see in movies/TV).
I didn’t get a look at his face as I was scared and shocked as hell at that time and didn’t enter the room. At around 12 AM, somehow we had dinner and we were also having a headache, maybe because of the smell.
The Uncle of P called for an Ambulance from AIIMS since the body has to be taken for the Postmortem. At around 3:30 AM the Ambulance came and somehow they took the swollen heavy body and police sealed the room.
I can’t believe we had been living in the same flat with a dead body in the next room for 2 days!
Now the body is gone but it’s still hard to believe that the person we used to see every day and say Hi to isn’t in this world anymore.
It seems these days the mental problems should be taken as seriously as the physical body problems. It’s not clear why P committed suicide since we didn’t know him so well but depression and stress seem to be the most common cause of this. Today, we are so well connected with everyone through smartphones and the internet but still, we feel alone.
So, please notice the people around you, we are all fighting our battles every day. Some have it better and some have it worse but it’s the same thing for everyone. Listening to someone may help them and talk to someone about your problems may help you and prevent people from taking some drastic measures and end their life.
