A former laboratory assistant of BR Ambedkar College, Pavitra Bhardwaj, who had set herself ablaze following sexual abuse, succumbed on Monday. In a separate incident, an air hostess working with GoAir, ended her life by jumping from the eighth floor of her residence following marital discord with her husband in Faridabad.
Pavitra Bhardwaj, a resident of North-east Delhi's Maujpur area, was allegedly compelled to quit her job as a laboratory assistant in BR Ambedkar College in 2011 and was repeatedly subjected to sexual harassment by principal GK Arora and another staff member. She had leveled charges of sexual harassment and life threat against the principal but failed to get justice despite repeated complaints to concerned authorities and Delhi Police. She took the extreme step of self immolation on September 30.
In a separate incident, 25-year-old air hostess, Indu lamba, jumped to death from the eighth floor of her apartment following an altercation with her husband on Sunday night. No suicide note has been recovered. The incident took place around 11:30 pm when some security guards heard a loud thud and found lamba lying in a pool of blood. lamba along with her husband Rahul lamba (28), works as a property dealer in Palwal, was residing in Flat number-805 in a posh high-rise building since 2012. Police sources said that the couple had a love marriage on February 19 last year.