Overview
- Police found former Delhi chief secretary Rakesh Mehta hanging at his rented Sector 82 flat in Noida on September 6, and the scene led officers to treat the case as an apparent suicide.
- Investigators recovered a one‑page purported suicide note in which Mehta reportedly cited mental and health issues, and police say they are verifying the note’s authenticity and contents.
- A forensic team examined the flat, a post‑mortem and inquest were completed, the body was handed to the family, and Mehta was cremated at Lodhi Road crematorium.
- Mehta was a 1975‑batch IAS officer who served as Delhi chief secretary from 2007 to 2010 and is credited by colleagues with reforms in property tax, sanitation, power privatisation and transport during the build‑up to the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
- Authorities say the probe remains open and will look at forensic findings, the note and other evidence; reporting also notes Mehta lived alone for years and had chronic health problems that family and police say were a factor in his decline.