BHOPAL: A 26-year-old woman allegedly jumped to her death from her seven-storey apartment building in Kolar after losing Rs 5 lakh in an online fraud. Her mother had saved the money for her marriage and medical expenses, she said in a final audio message to her family.
It’s probably the first suicide in Bhopal due to an online scam. From preliminary investigation, police suspect it was an investment fraud.
Investigation officer SI Vinod Dwivedi said the victim had a masters in education and used to give tuitions at home. Around 6.30am on Saturday, her family suddenly realized she wasn’t in their fourth-floor apartment. They had just begun looking for her when neighbours told them that she was found lying injured on the ground. She was taken to hospital where doctors declared her dead on arrival.
She had climbed to the seventh floor and jumped, SI Dwivedi said. She didn’t leave any suicide note.
Woman had made an audio on why she was killing herself
In shock, the family had no clue to what had happened until her brother, a Bengaluru techie who is now working from home in Bhopal, saw a text message she had sent her and an audio recording on her mobile phone, in which she explained why she was killing herself, said Kolar TI Chandrakant Patel.
In her last messages, she had said that she lost around Rs 5 lakh in an online investment, and was depressed because she knew her mother had saved it for medical and wedding expenses, said ASP Zone-1 Ankit Jaiswal. She probably fell victim to cyber-frauds, said police. Kolar cops have registered a case.
