A 38-year-old schoolteacher fell to her death from the terrace of a four-storey building at Seemapuri here on Saturday. No suicide note was found at the spot.
According to the police, Madhu Sharma was a teacher at a government school in Noida. The mother of three had separated from her husband Anil Sharma some time ago and was living in a rented flat. Her son and two daughters also lived with her.
Around 6.30 p.m., the police control room was informed that a woman had fallen from the fourth floor of a building. A team reached the spot to find Madhu lying in a muddy pool of rainwater just below the building.
She was then rushed to the nearby Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, where she was declared brought dead.
The police team found a plastic stool on the building’s terrace from where Madhu fell to her death. But the police said the parapet wasn’t high enough for the victim to use a stool to scale it.
“The recovery of the stool from the spot could suggest that she committed suicide. But if she wanted to jump down, she did not really need the stool,” said a police officer.
Madhu’s children purportedly told the police that they were not aware of any reason which could have driven their mother to take the extreme step.
However, they have ruled out that their mother could have fallen off the terrace accidentally. The police said they will question her husband if needed.
A case has been registered at the Seemapuri police station.
