Domestic help jumps to death from 16th floor of Ggm condo
GURUGRAM: A 19-year-old woman who worked as a domestic help jumped to her death from the 16th floor of M3M Merlin, a condominium in Sector 67 here on Tuesday, the police said.
According to the police, the incident took place around 10.30pm, allegedly because her parents refused to let her marry a man of her choice. The police said she was being pressured by her parents to get married to another man from Rai Bareili.
The police said they have not recovered any suicide note from her possession or her room.
The woman, who lived Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh, was hired by the family of three, primarily to take care of their fouryear-old child, and had been living with the family in their flat for the past 25 days.
Sector 65 SHO Dinesh Kumar said she had been upset with her family members for the last few days. “She was hired through a placement agency for ₹10,000 a month. Her brother used to recharge the call balance on her mobile phone, and despite her repeated requests had not been recharging for the past 25 days, following which she was unable to make any outgoing calls,” he said.
Police said the deceased had fought with her brother, who told his mother who had also spoken to her. She allegedly threatened not to speak to them again.
Kumar said that around 10.30pm, when she did not come out of her room to serve dinner, the employer called for her. But when they did not get any response, one of the residents went to check her room and found her missing.
“The apartment’s main door was latched, and on checking from the kitchen balcony, found her on the ground floor in the shaft area. She immediately informed her husband and security staff. The police was also informed within a few minutes and a team from the police station was sent to the spot,” Kumar said.
The woman was rushed to a nearby hospital, where doctors declared her dead on arrival.