Doctor dies of heart attack while playing with daughters in UP's Lakhimpur Kheri

The wife, who entered inside by breaking the door with the help of neighbors, was shocked to see her husband lying on the bed in an unconscious state and both the twin daughters were playing on the dead body.

Lakhimpur Kheri: In a shocking incident, a doctor died of a heart attack while playing with his daughters in Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh on July 26. It is learnt that Dr Rajesh Mohan Gupta, a native of Varanasi, who has been living in a rented apartment in the Kashinagar area for the last five years, was playing with his twin daughters when he had a massive heart attack and he died on the spot.

Unaware of the death of the father, the daughters kept playing with their mother's vermilion and smeared it on their father's face and sometimes on clothes. Dr Gupta's wife, Dr Veena Gupta, who returned from duty in the evening kept knocking at the door but to no avail. The wife, who entered inside by breaking the door with the help of neighbours, was shocked to see her husband lying on the bed in an unconscious state and both the twin daughters were playing on the dead body.

He was taken to the district hospital where the doctors declared him brought dead. The post-mortem report also states that the death of the doctor was due to cardiac arrest. Dr Rajesh was posted in the town of Bajudiha village, while his wife is posted at a Community Health Centre (CHC). It is being said that the doctor was under some mental stress regarding his transfer. He was transferred from Kheri to Shahjahanpur district a few days ago.