GURGAON: A 30-year-old bank manager allegedly jumped to death from his ninth floor apartment in DLF-IV.

Police said Rakesh Pilania, who was a manager at the MG Road branch of RBS Bank, took the extreme step on Monday night, following a tiff with his wife Shobhika.

Following a complaint by Rakesh's father, Anand Prakash Pilania, on Tuesday, police have booked his wife, brother-in-law Shubham and parents-in-law on the charge of abetment to suicide.

According to police, Rakesh, from Bhiwani in Haryana, had married Shobhika, a native of Hapur in UP, in December 2014. It was an arranged marriage and he had been living with his wife in the rented flat No K-96 of Ridgewood Estate in DLF-IV since early this year.

On Monday evening, an argument broke out between the bank manager and his wife over her intention to continue with her job, despite his objection, police said. Shobhika called her brother Shubham, who allegedly came and beat up Rakesh. Shubham then took his sister away to their parents' place. When Rakesh and his mother went to his parents-in-laws' place to negotiate with them, Shobika refused to return to her husband's place.

"Around 8pm, after returning to his flat with his mother, he locked the flat and jumped off the bedroom window. Around 11pm, we got the information. He was rushed to a private hospital where he was declared brought dead," the investigating officer said.

Police sources said Rakesh used to get around Rs 1 lakh as salary and did not want his wife to work, but she wanted to continue with her job, which she had taken up soon after they settled in Gurgaon.

Whether she should work was the main argument between the husband and wife, police said. Shobhika's brother, who also lived in Gurgaon, continued to interfere in the couple's life. Rakesh's family members claimed he was thrashed many a time by his brother-in-law.

In the complaint, Rakesh's father said his wife had been harassing from the time they got married on December 03, 2014, and she and her family members had threatened to file a fake dowry case agaisnt him. "On Monday morning, he had called his mother and me and told us everything. His brother-in-law came and fought with him too. Finally my son jumped to his death," said Ananad Prakash Pilania, who is a manager in Syndicate Bank in Bhiwani.

