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NOIDA: A day after an IITian allegedly jumped to death from the tenth-floor balcony of his flat in Pavilion Court society in Sector 128, police on Tuesday booked his estranged wife, her parents and her two brothers for abetment to suicide.

The FIR under IPC Section 306 (abetment to suicide) at the Expressway police station against the five persons, including the wife who is a senior government employee, comes in the wake of a complaint by the father of Gagan Gautam, who allagedly committed suicide.

TOI had reported that the 35-year-old IITian, who also held a master’s degree from an American university, had recently lost his job and was fighting a dowry case lodged by his wife in a Delhi police station.

According to Gagan’s father, the family of the woman, an engineer in a Maharatna public enterprise in Noida, had been demanding Rs 50 lakh from them and the ownership of the flat in lieu of taking back the dowry case filed by her against his son, his parents and other family members. Gagan’s father Balak Ram has further alleged that after losing his job in the MNC around two years back, his son had started his own work.

“But Gagan would always remain nervous. Last year, Gagan told us that his father-in-law and brothers-in-law had assaulted him. On Sunday, Gagan had come to meet us and he told us that his wife was demanding Rs. 50 lakh and the ownership of the flat from him in order to take back the dowry case,” he said. Gagan had also defaulted on paying EMIs.

“These are the allegations of the parents of the deceased. We’ll investigate the same. The woman’s side of the story is yet to be known,” Expressway SHO Bhuvnesh Kumar said.

