Former Delhi chief secretary Rakesh Mehta, 74, was found dead at his rented flat in Noida's Sector 82 on Sunday, hours after his family failed to reach him on the phone. Police recovered a one page note from the flat in which Mehta stated that no one was responsible for his death, pointing instead to the illnesses he had been living with.
Mehta, a 1975 batch AGMUT cadre IAS officer, served as Delhi's chief secretary from December 2007 to 2010, a tenure that placed him at the centre of the city's preparations for the 2010 Commonwealth Games. He had earlier headed the Delhi Transport Corporation and served as MCD commissioner, and was widely known for pushing reforms in urban governance and public transport.
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