Bengaluru: A PRO of an IT company who went missing after attending a birthday party along with his friends was found dead in a lake in K R Puram on June 23.

Umamaheshwara J, a native of Ballari is the deceased. He was employed as PRO at Capgemini and was residing along with his wife and a child in KR Puram.

Police sources said that the body was found by a few passerby who informed the KR Puram police. Immediately police rushed to the spot and recovered the body from the lake with the help of fire personnel. The police have also recovered the motorcycle from the lake.

The victim had gone for a birthday party along with his friends in the outskirts of the city and returned to Mahadevapura in a car. Then Umamaheshwara took his bike which was parked at a public place and even after repeated requests from his friends to take a cab as he was drunk, he decided to ride home.

The police suspect that while Umamaheshwara was crossing the ITI lake, he could have plunged into the lake after losing control over his bike as there was no proper fencing and the road was slippery. KR Puram police have taken up a case of unnatural death and are investigating.