A pastry-eating competition in the canteen of a multinational IT company in Udyog Vihar cost a young engineer his life on Wednesday afternoon. Twenty-two-year-old Saurabh Sabharwal, who reportedly choked to death, was found unconscious in the washroom after having eaten many pastries. He was rushed to a private hospital where the doctors declared him dead.
RK Sabharwal, father of Saurabh who was a solution engineer with Nokia-Siemens Network, blamed the company for organising the competition. "Why did they have to organise such a competition?" he said. An official from Nokia-Siemens Network present at Max Hospital refused to speak to HT.
In his statement to the police, RK Sabharwal said he received a call at 2.35 p.m. that his son was not well and had been rushed to Max Hospital in Gurgaon.
"When I reached the hospital, I was told he had died. When I enquired from his colleagues Devender Pal Singh and one Mr Minocha told me there was a pastry competition organized by the company where Saurabh was participating. Suddenly he rushed to the washroom where his friends found him lying unconscious," he said .
Dr Sushma Sharma, medical advisor with Max, Sushant Lok, said Saurabh died of asphyxiation as the pastry choked his windpipe. "We received a call from Nokia-Siemens Network that one of their employees had fainted and was rushed to our hospital," said Sharma. Hospital authorities claimed he was dead when he was brought in.
{{/usCountry}}Dr Sushma Sharma, medical advisor with Max, Sushant Lok, said Saurabh died of asphyxiation as the pastry choked his windpipe. "We received a call from Nokia-Siemens Network that one of their employees had fainted and was rushed to our hospital," said Sharma. Hospital authorities claimed he was dead when he was brought in.
{{/usCountry}}SHO Surender Singh action would be taken after the postmortem report comes in.