Girl falls to death from 11th floor in Pune

PUNE: A 17-year-old girl fell to her death from the 11th floor of a residential apartment in Nanded City off Sinhagad Road around 9am on Sunday.
Senior inspector Sadashiv Shelar of the Haveli police citing the circumstances and a preliminary investigation said it appeared to be a case of death by suicide. “The girl’s mother told us that her daughter had been depressed for the last few days and she was not able to cope with her Std XII science online studies. We are continuing with our investigation.”
The police have yet to record the parents’ statements. They were in their first floor flat along with their five-year-old son. The father runs a training academy for budding horse riders at Katraj-Ambegaon and the girl had participated in national level horse riding competitions. She had scored 95% marks in her Std X board exams, the police said.
Shelar said, “CCTV footage from the area in front of the lift on the building’s first floor shows the girl reaching for the lift going up to the 11th floor after coming out of her flat around 9am. She went to the 11th floor corridor that links the flats on either side of the building. Nobody saw her falling. The corridor has no CCTV surveillance. It difficult to assess how she fell. No suicide note was found at the site.”
A first floor resident of the same building was standing in the balcony of his flat when he heard a loud thud. He rushed down the stairs and raised an alarm. The security guards and other residents of the society came to the spot. They picked up the injured girl and took her to a private hospital in Erandwane where she was declared dead. The postmortem at Sassoon General Hospital said she died of multiple injuries.
A local resident told TOI the family had decided to take her to an academic counselor. Another resident said the girl was creative and was taking drawing classes.
An amateur horse rider from Nanded City said, “ I used to ride horses with her at their training facility. She was a prolific rider and had participated in many state and national-level competitions. She used to trek too.”