Ghaziabad police have registered a criminal case under Section 302 (culpable homicide amounting to murder) of the IPC against two unidentified persons in the mysterious death of 31-year-old Rajya Sabha TV producer Milita Dutta Mandal, said the police. “We have registered the case on the complaint of our own police personnel. The culprits have not been identified as the CCTV camera was found defunct at the time of the incident.”
Earlier, asked about the progress in the investigation, on whether police conducted any ‘dummy test’ to ascertain cause of injuries, Deputy Superintendent of Police Atul Yadav said, “No Comments”.
Meanwhile, relatives of the woman termed the death as “not normal”. Mandal died on Monday night under mysterious circumstances at her residence in the Mahagun Mosaic Phase II apartments in Vaishali. She was found in a critically injured condition in the basement of the multi-storey apartment tower. Mandal had reached her eight-floor apartment around 11 p.m. Monday.
Around 11.40 pm, neighbours heard a scream and found her in the basement. Along with her husband, they rushed the woman to a hospital, where she was declared dead. Earlier, Superintendent of Police (City) Shiv Hari Meena said the case was being investigated keeping all possible angles in mind.
“let the post mortem report reach us, then only we will be able to comment,” he said. “Prima facie, it seems she was pushed in a fit of anger by her husband. The balcony was found broken, which might have broken by the heavy push. But it is still a mystery, nothing can be claimed authentically till investigation is completed,” he added.