SURAT: Jealousy over her friendship with another female neighbour, a 30-year-old woman pushed off a 27-year-old woman from the fouth floor of the residential building on Friday.
However, Bharti Bodhra, a resident of Yogi Chowk area luckily survived the fall though she suffered serious injuries on her body as the fall was arrested by a railing on the first floor. Bodhra suffered a fracture in her leg and is currently under treatment at a private hospital.
Currently undergoing more tests to ascertain any internal impact from the fall, the victim surprised doctors and police by not fainting despite falling off four floors and had the sense to lodged a complaint with the police herself in this regard.
Police booked Aakhja for attempt to murder under Indian Penal Code. Bodhra was arrested by police on Saturday and produced in a local court. The court sent the accused in judicial custody.
According to police, Bodhra was pushed by her neighbour Daksha Aakhja who did not like the former’s friendship with another neighbour named Dharmishtha.
When the victim was combing her hair in the common passage of the apartment near the staircase on Friday morning, the accused accosted her about her friendship despite being warned not to keep good relations with the other woman. In a rage, the accused then pushed Bodhra who fell in gap between the stairs.
“The gap between the stairs is narrow due to which the victim’s fall was restricted. She fell on the grill on the first floor and then on the ground floor. Due to the obstructed fall she is alive,” said a police officer at Sarthana police station.
Bodhra’s husband is a diamond broker and the family is from Judala village in Rajkot. While there are other issues too, but primarily it was friendship with Dharmishtha that irked the accused to push Bodhra.
In her complaint, Bodhra claimed she and Dharmishtha share a good rapport and often spend time together. Their families too are in good terms and regularly visit each other’s home.
On that day, Bodhra and Dharmishtha had gone out shopping which accused Aakhja did not like, said cops.