Noida, 30 March

(HS): A 21-year-old college student reportedly committed suicide by jumping

from the 28th floor of her residential society in Sector 32 here, police said

on Monday. According to authorities, no suicide note was found at the scene;

nevertheless, family members said that she had been psychologically troubled

for some time.

The

tragedy occurred on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, when Arpita,

a D-Block tenant in Sector 32, leaped from the building. She was a second-year

Bachelor of Technology student from a college in Punjab who had returned to

Noida two days before to the event. A police officer said that no suicide note

was found at the scene.

Police

were told by family members that she had become psychologically disturbed after

arriving home. On the night of the event, she allegedly leaped from her

28th-floor apartment balcony. The society's security guard observed her and

contacted the family, who then informed the police. The woman's father is a

businessman. According to authorities, the family is from Basti, Uttar Pradesh,

and is now staying in Sector 32. Following the completion of the inquest

proceedings, the corpse was transferred for post-mortem examination. The police

said that further investigation is underway.

Meanwhile,

a 40-year-old man allegedly committed suicide on Monday by falling from the top

of a high-rise building in the Rajnagar Extension neighborhood, according to

police. Raghukul Tilak, a resident of a 12th-floor home in Blue Moon Society in

the Nand Gram neighborhood, worked for a logistics firm situated in Noida and

linked to Dubai, according to authorities. Nand Gram Assistant Commissioner of

Police Jiauddin Ahmed informed that Tilak married five years ago but has been

living alone for the last three years due to a disagreement with his wife. The

pair legally split six months ago, he claimed, and the exact floor from which

he plunged is unknown.

According

to the police, Tilak's father told them he was despondent. Despite his parents'

persistent demands to remarry, he resisted. Police are reviewing CCTV video

from the society and other buildings to determine the order of events. The ACP

stated that the body had been submitted for a postmortem examination.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi