45-yr-old woman jumps off terrace, dies

Vadodara: A 45-year-old woman ended her life by jumping off the fifth-floor terrace of her building on Laxmipura Road on Wednesday afternoon.
The woman Anita Devasi went to the terrace and jumped off when others in her family were taking an afternoon nap.
Police said that Devasi was severely stressed as her daughter refused to go to her in-laws’ house in Pali district of Rajasthan.
“Devasi and her husband had been trying to convince their daughter to patch-up with her husband and go back to Rajasthan. But she was adamant on not going back.
On the other hand, the in-laws were pressurizing the couple to send their daughter back,” said a police official.
On Wednesday morning too, Devasi got a call from her daughter’s in-laws following which her husband got an epileptic fit and their neighbours had also gathered, police said.
“Everything seemed settled after that, but the woman decided to end her life. We did not find any suicide note from the house,” the police official said.
After the woman jumped off, she was taken to a nearby private hospital, but she succumbed in the evening. A case of accidental death was registered at Laxmipura police station.