Manavsthal Apartments in Malad where she fell to death.

Manavsthal Apartments in Malad where she fell to death

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MUMBAI: Arpita Tiwari , a 24-year-old who recently established a start-up, was found dead under mysterious circumstances on the second-floor of the duct of a Malad (West) highrise early on Monday.Tiwari and her boyfriend were visiting friends who stayed on the 15th floor of the 19-storey Manavsthal Apartments on Mahakali Road when the incident took place. The police said it's not clear whether Tiwari jumped or fell. Her friends as well as her boyfriend are being questioned.Tiwari, who had founded the start-up for events and advertising solutions two years ago, lived in Mira Road . She had done her MBA after a bachelor's degree in mass media from a Bandra college and used to anchor events since 2012. She was in a relationship for the past five years and was planning to tie the knot with her boyfriend. Her family had no objections to the relationship, said police.Around 3am on Monday, the couple arrived at the rented flat where four of their friends live. The group had food and drinks and went to bed around 4am. When one of them woke up at 7am, he couldn't spot Tiwari.He noticed that the bathroom door was locked and assumed that Tiwari was taking a bath. When he again woke up about half an hour later, Tiwari was still not around. He then woke up her boyfriend and the two knocked on the bathroom door. When they did not receive any response, they fetched a duplicate key and opened the bathroom. It was vacant and the glass panes on the window were missing.Concerned that Tiwari had fallen out, her boyfriend and some of her friends rushed downstairs. "We were wondering what the men were searching for around 9.30am," said the manager of the society. "Subsequently, they discovered Tiwari's body on the second-floor duct and informed us. We immediately alerted the police." The police are probing the sequence of events that led to the death and are going through CCTV footage in the building."Tiwari had visited the flat on a couple of occasions in the past," said a security guard of Manavsthal, home to TV actors and to a corporator.The police are also investigating whether all was well between Tiwari and her boyfriend, who works in animation. "No note was left behind by her. We will examine Tiwari's cellphone and her social media accounts," a police official said.A case of accidental death has been recorded by the Malwani police. A post-mortem is expected to reveal the cause of death.