he was almost a celebrity and an asset to our hospital according to their neighbours in sobha daffodil apartment at somasundarapalya hsr layout sector vii dr koul returned home from the hospital around 1245pm in his silver toyota etios was a celebrity doctorsparsh hospital founder dr sharan but we heard other residents screaming and found dr kouls body jagadish told police he was supposed to return and conduct a few other surgeries later in the day the apartment gardeners found the body a close family member said the surgeon was upset for a month over an issue were shocked at his death a housekeeping staff told toiaccording to family friends relatives and neighbours dr koul may have taken the extreme step due to personal or family reasons we had conducted two surgeries and just after that he went to drop his daughter home police are yet to speak to his family members on what could have led to the suicide bengaluru a 56yearold plastic and reconstructive surgeon allegedly committed suicide by jumping from the terrace of his 12floor apartment in southeast bengaluru on monday afternoon he took the elevator straight to the terrace and leapt to his death a police officer said quoting neighbours he seemed to be in panic hospital security guards and housekeeping staff described the surgeon a kashmiri pandit as a softspoken gentleman its said that the surgeon came home from the hospital to drop his daughter he would lock himself in office and his colleagues at hospital had seen him talking anxiously on the phone last week a police source said in fact he banged the car door as he got out jagadish gangadhar rangappa and ramanna were trimming the grass when they heard a thud no death note was found at the spot she had come to our hospital today to work on a project he did not go to his flat on the fifth floor the older daughter is studying medicine in the us and the younger is a class 10 student in a private school patil said dr koul was one of the sharpest persons and one of the most respected doctors in the country gangadhar and jagadish thought some kids had thrown the shoe from a balcony he would ask about our health and about our families dr ashok raj koul chief of plastic and microvascular services at sparsh hospital in bommasandra is survived by wife dr asha koul an anaesthetist at hosmat hospital here and two daughters its a great loss when they looked in the direction of the noise they saw a black shoe a police officer said