Chandigarh, May 22 -- In a tragic incident, an 85-year-old NRI Sewa Singh, a former company manager in England, died by suicide at his ancestral home in village Bainapur near Noormahal.

The NRI, who had returned to India nearly four years ago due to deteriorating health, was living alone at the time of the incident on Wednesday. According to police sources, Singh used a licensed 6.6 bore pistol to end his life, firing a single shot to his head. The act was captured on the home's CCTV system, which showed Singh bowing his head before a photograph in his room moments before the fatal shot. The distressing discovery was made by Puja, a domestic worker who has been employed by the family for the past 20 years.

She arrived at the residence to...