A 25-year-old female pilot of Air India died by suicide at her rented flat in Mumbai in the early hours of Monday, following which police arrested her boyfriend on charges of abetment, reports PTI.
The deceased was identified as Srishti Tuli. She lived at the Kanakia Rain Forest building in the Marol area of Mumbai.
Her alleged boyfriend Aditya Pandit, aged 27, was taken into custody on Tuesday by Mumbai police after Tuli’s relatives accused him of abetting the suicide.
They accused him of harassing and abusing her and forcing her to stop eating non-vegetarian food, according to an official citing the FIR.
According to the official from Powai police station, Tuli was from Uttar Pradesh and had been living in Mumbai for work since June last year. She and Pandit had met while pursuing a commercial pilot course in Delhi two years ago and got into a relationship.
The suicide came to light after Pandit started his journey to Delhi by car. During the drive, Tuli called Pandit saying she would end her life. Pandit rushed to Mumbai and found the door of her flat locked from inside, according to an official.
He then got the door opened with the help of a key maker and found her hanging in the room.
She was taken to the SevenHills Hospital, where doctors declared her dead.
No suicide note was found in the house.
Tuli’s uncle later approached the police alleging that Pandit would harass her often and even humiliate her in public. Besides, he had also pressured her to change her food habits, claimed the relative, the official said.
Based on the uncle’s complaint, Pandit was arrested under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhit section 108 (abetment of suicide). He was produced in a court which remanded him in police custody for four days.