Friend rules out torture, stolen skin toner found

Greater Noida/Lucknow: Police on Thursday acquired the CCTV footage of 21-year-old BTech student Ritu Yadav lifting a skin toner from a departmental store in Greater Noida last week and also recovered the stolen lotion from the cupboard of her apartment in NRI City that she shared with four other women.
Ritu's flatmates, who she accused of "torturing" her in a suicide note after they got to know about the stealing incident, have been booked for abetting her suicide but not arrested.Cops said a male friend of the victim, who stayed in the apartment on Tuesday night, was questioned and he denied Ritu was tortured by the four.
Kasna police station in-charge Anil Pratap Singh told TOI, "We have acquired CCTV footage of Ritu stealing the toner from the departmental store as well as the stolen item from her cupboard. The footage clearly shows Ritu putting a product in her bag. However, we have not received any complaint from the store."
Ritu was caught on the Jagat Farms store's camera stealing the skin toner on April 16. When her flatmates returned to shop the same evening, the store manager told her flatmates about it. "Ritu's four flatmates have not been arrested as police will decide on the next course of action after examining all the facts. In her suicide note written in English, Ritu mentioned her roommates had hit her with a beer bottle and tortured her. But we have not found any beer bottle," he added.
Police said they have also recorded the statement of one of her male friends. "He is from the deceased's native place, Kanpur, and he had reached her flat around 8 pm on Tuesday and stayed overnight. He told us that he did not witness any torture by her flat mates," Singh said.
One of Ritu's flatmates also denied torturing her after they got to know about the shop-lifting. "We had only asked her father to come to Greater Noida and pacify the store manager. We had also told her that things will be settled and asked her to sleep with us in one room that night, but she did not. In the morning, the security guard told us about the suicide," he said.
Ritu's father, Vishambhar Singh Yadav, confirmed getting a call from one of her roommates, "She asked me to come to Greater Noida as soon as possible. However, I was not told about the entire incident."
Ritu, who jumped to death from the roof of the 17-storey NRI City apartment building on Wednesday, came to Greater Noida last year from Kanpur after she got admission in a private college.
As the news of Ritu's death spread in Kanpur's Barra Vishwa Bank Colony where Ritu grew up, her friends could not believe that she could have taken such an extreme step. "She was very bold. I still cannot believe it. I am really shocked. The last time I had met here she was fine and seemed ok and not complained about any of her roommates," said Ananya, her nextdoor friend.