Overview
- Mukesh Kumar, 47, died after a fifth‑floor jump at ESIC Hospital in Sector‑24, Noida on Wednesday evening, according to police.
- He had been admitted on March 9 for oral cancer treatment and was staying with his wife, who returned from the bathroom to find him missing from the ward.
- Police said he reached a stairwell window on the fifth floor, opened it, and leapt, and he died on impact.
- Officers took the body into custody and sent it for a postmortem, and a preliminary inquiry points to severe stress from his illness as a likely motive.
- Relatives allege negligence over a lack of staff supervision when he accessed the window, and the hospital had not issued a statement as of the latest reports.