Crew member ‘falls’ to death from 5th floor, friend booked

Gurgaon: A 26-year-old former crew member of an international airline allegedly fell to her death from the fifth-floor balcony of a Sector 67 flat on Sunday night. Police have booked one of her friends after the woman’s family alleged foul play.
The woman, who was from Sikkim, had been staying in DLF-3 with her 27-year-old sister, who works with a private firm. According to her, for the last three years, the woman had been in a relationship with a 27-year-old man who, till recently, had been employed with a domestic airline as a pilot. Both of them had been out of work since the lockdown.
The woman had been perturbed as the man had cut all ties with her since the past one month and blocked her on social networking sites, her sister said. To repair the relationship, she had tried to get in touch with him and emailed him, almost daily, her sister added. She claimed that the man usually ignored the emails, but whenever he answered, the replies would be abusive and he would tell her to stay away from him and his family.
“On Saturday, to my surprise, she received an email from him inviting her for a get-together at his friend’s place,” the woman’s sister said.
She told police that the next day, the pilot picked up her sister from their DLF-3 apartment. The two then went to his friend’s place in Bestech Park View Spa Next Society in Sector 67. Around 10.25pm, she received a call from the man, who told her that her sister had fallen from the building. He asked her to reach Artemis hospital immediately.
“During the call, one of his friends took the phone and told me that she was no more,” she said.
When she reached the hospital, the woman claimed she saw red scratch marks on the man’s neck. “I checked my sister’s body and saw blue bruises all over her body, as well as a cut on her lips,” she told police.
Alleging foul play, she said, “She was not the kind of person who could throw away her life. I have a strong suspicion that she was murdered.”
On the basis of her complaint, the Sector 65 police booked the friend under IPC Section 306 (abetment of suicide).
Inspector Dinkar, SHO of Sector 65 police station, said no suicide note had been found and they were trying to ascertain the cause of death. “We are recording the statements. Things are not clear at this point,” he said.
A post-mortem is yet to be conducted, and a final call on it will be taken by the woman’s sister, who is expected to wait for her parents to arrive in the city.
While TOI could not reach the pilot, he told police in his statement that the woman had accidentally fallen from the balcony.