63-year-old woman jumps to death from Noida high-rise

Police suspect it to be a case of suicide but the reason behind the woman taking the extreme step is yet to be ascertained.

Noida: a 63-year-old woman died allegedly after she jumped from her 10th-floor apartment in a housing society here on Friday, police officials said.
Police suspect it to be a case of suicide but the reason behind the woman taking the extreme step is yet to be ascertained.

“Today, around 4.30 pm, Vinita Mahendru, wife of Ashok Kumar Mahendru, a resident of the NRI Residency, Sector-45 Noida, jumped from her 10th floor flat,” Assistant Commissioner of Police (Noida–1) Rajneesh Verma said.

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Her son informed the local Sector-39 police station about the incident, police said.

The body has been sent for postmortem, they added.