Doctor from Indore dies falls to death in Hyderabad

The victim was identified as Dr.Pankaj Kumar Jain, a native of Indore in Madhya Pradesh, who had come to Hyderabad to fix his daughter's wedding with a businessman from the city. 

Hyderabad: In a tragic incident, a 60-year-old doctor from Indore, who was in the city along with family to fix the marriage of his daughter, fell to his death in the elevator pit of a hotel in Banjara Hills on Friday night.

The doctor, Pankaj Kumar Jain, had reached the city on Thursday to fix his daughter Anupama Jain’s wedding with Bharath, a civil contractor from the city. The family checked into a hotel on Banjara Hills Road No.12 on Friday morning and took two rooms.

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According to the police, in the evening, the family went to meet Bharath’s farmhouse in Shamshabad to discuss the wedding plans and returned around 9 pm. Around 10 pm, while Anupama, her mother and sister were in the room on the sixth floor, Pankaj went out saying he would wait for them downstairs for dinner.

When Anupama went downstairs, she could not find him, after which they began searching for him. They also checked the basement, where they found him lying unconscious and injured in the pit of an extra lift which was being constructed. He was immediately shifted to a nearby private hospital, where doctors declared him dead.

“The only access to the new lift is on the sixth floor, which was not locked. It is suspected he could have been waiting for the lift on the sixth floor and unknowingly opened the door and stepped inside, thus falling into the pit,” police said.

Jain’s family has alleged negligence on part of the hotel management for not taking necessary safety measures and not locking the lift door on the sixth floor. Based on Anupama’s complaint on Saturday, the Banjara Hills police have booked a case of negligence causing death and are investigating.