'No job security in IT industry': Software engineer commits suicide in Pune

Amid reports of several IT companies laying off employees, a software engineer on Wednesday committed suicide in Maharashtra's Pune over concerns about his job security.

The engineer who has been identified as Gopikrishna Durgaprasad (25) was a resident of Krishna district​ in Andhra Pradesh and had started working in Pune three days ago.

Durgaprasad left a suicide note written and signed in English, saying he was worried for his family, reported Hindustan Times.

“In IT there is no job security. I’m worried a lot about my family,” he said in a note found in his hotel room in Viman Nagar, an accommodation provided by the company

Durgaprasad had worked in Delhi, Hyderabad and had recently started working in a software company in Pune, said police. 

API Jaisinghkar said, "The engineer inflicted 25 cuts on his left wrist with a knife. When that did not work out, he went to the terrace of the four-storied hotel and jumped to his death."

His relative said that there was nothing to suggest his actions. "I do not know what happened,” said his relative Venkatrao Murthy.

Last month, Infosys co-founder NR Narayana Murthy said that IT companies can protect the jobs of youngsters if senior executives take pay cuts.

A forum for IT Employees (FITE), representing software professionals in various companies had also requested state governments to look into the issue of 'terminating' employees by IT companies.