Man jumps to death from court building

LUCKNOW: After a failed first attempt at his home, a property dealer jumped to death from multi-storey building of the district and sessions court premises here on Tuesday morning. Police said Rakesh Kumar Rawat, 30, was apparently facing financial crisis.

LUCKNOW: After a failed first attempt at his home, a property dealer jumped to death from multi-storey building of the district and sessions court premises here on Tuesday morning.

Police said Rakesh Kumar Rawat, 30, was apparently facing financial crisis and had consumed multiple sleeping pills a night earlier but was rescued by his children.

The incident took place around 10.30 am when litigants and lawyers were gearing up for the daily proceedings on the court premises.

Eyewitnesses said Rawat was spotted standing near a window on the 8th floor of the court building minutes before he jumped down and was found bleeding profusely on the ground.

Circle Officer (CO), Chowk, RS Rai said the victim apparently jumped from the open window and died after hitting the ground. He said the victim’s identity was ascertained from an identity card and a mobile phone found in his clothes.

A resident of Mardankheda in Para area, the victim stayed with his wife Kranti and five kids, including four daughters and a son.

The CO said Rawat’s wife told the cops that he tried to commit suicide even on Monday night by consuming multiple sleeping pills but was rescued by his children. He said the victim’s wife alleged that he was having an extra-marital affair and often used to harass her over it.

He said the victim was going through financial crisis as he also had to manage the expenditure of the woman with whom he was having an affair. He said the victim’s family so far has not lodged any written complaint in the matter. Earlier, a 52-year-old man committed suicide by jumping from the third floor of Chief Standing Council (CSC) building inside High Court premises on March 4, 2016. In similar incident, one undertrial, Arvinder Singh, 34, had jumped to death from the seventh floor of the multi-storey building of the city court on August 30, 2010.