Ramesh Agarwal, father of India’s travel tech unicorn OYO’s founder Ritesh Agarwal allegedly died after allegedly failing from the 20th floor of his house in Gurgaon. As per media reports, police have started inquest proceedings under section 174 of Crpc. 

"A team along with SHO sector 53 visited the place of occurrence. During inspection of the place, the person was identified as Ramesh Parsad Agarwal. Ramesh was brought dead to the hospital. After taking the statement of the son of the deceased, Aashish Agarwal, an inquest under Section 174 CrPC has been carried out. The post-mortem was conducted and the body was handed over to the family,” the police claimed in a statement. 

“With a heavy heart, my family and I would like to share that our guiding light and strength, my father, Shri Ramesh Agarwal passed away on March 10. He lived a full life and inspired me and so many of us, every single day. His death is a tremendous loss for our family. My father’s compassion and warmth saw us through our toughest times and carried us forward. His words will resonate deep in our hearts. We request everyone to respect our privacy in this time of grief,” mourning his father’s death, Agarwal said in a statement. 

Ritesh recently got married to Geetansha Sood in Delhi. SoftBank Group’s CEO Masayoshi Son was present at his wedding ceremony. Multiple Indian start-up founders like Aman Gupta and Ashneer Grover also attended the ceremony with their families.