Hundreds of people who came for shopping and eating at the mall were stunned when they witnessed the woman jumping off from the fourth floor and fell down on the basement of the mall.......
The deceased was identified as Meena Sharma who came to the mall at 1 pm and was seen roaming around the third and fifth floor of the mall. Before anyone could understand the woman stood up to the railing and fell off, police said. She is a housewife and her husband Vinod Sharma is a manager with the state bank of India's Sanganeri gate situated branch.
"Her head hit the floor and she sustained grave head injury and succumbed on the spot," said a senior police officer who rushed to the spot after the incident.
Soon after the incident the on duty security staff of the mall intimated the Jhotwara police about it.
"The CCTV footage suggested that the woman was roaming around the mall just like a ordinary customer. CCTV also has the footage of the time when the woman actually jumped off," said a staff of the Triton Mall.
Police have also recovered a suicide note from the purse that belonged to the woman in which the deceased has not implicated anybody behind her stern step.
"She has not implicated anyone behind the stern step as she has said that she is coming suicide by her own will and nobody should be held responsible for it after her death," said a police officer from Jhotwara police station.
Panic stuck customers especially at the coffee shop which is on the basement of the mall where the woman fell down started running out of the mall.
"We were having coffee. Suddenly we heard a loud thud and what we saw was nothing less than a nightmare," said Shalini Vashishtha who came along with her family.
The primary investigations suggested that the woman left her Bani Park situated home at 10.30 am. She was in conversation with husband until she jumped off.
"She was roaming around at the fifth floor of the mall for almost half-an-hour before she actually jumped off. Her suicide note says nobody is responsible for his action," said Yogesh Goyal, additional deputy commissioner of police (west).
According to the police the woman's last call on the cellphone was to her husband Vinod. Police is considering it to be a matter of family feud but is also investigating if there was some instant abetment of suicide in the matter.
Soonafter the incident the woman's body was rushed to the Kanwatia hospital in Shastri Nagar. Her post mortem could not be done till the late evening as the police was awaiting her parents before that.
Box - After the woman jumped off her cellphone kept ringing. The police on the spot picked it up and the caller introduced himself as Vinod Sharma the husband of the woman. "What happened to her," asked Sharma. The police asked him to immediately rush to the mall and informed him about the tragedy.
