Overview
- The man, identified as Rahul Vijayran, and his two-year-old daughter fell from the 23rd floor at Joyville Society in Sector 102 on Monday morning and were declared dead at a private hospital.
- Gurugram police say CCTV shows he used a lift to reach a neighboring tower, dropped the child from the height, then jumped, though some earlier reports had said he leapt with her.
- An inquiry under Section 194 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita is active at Rajendra Park police station as officers review footage and witness accounts.
- Relatives and police report he had lost sight in one eye since COVID-19 and was under mental distress, and no suicide note was found.
- The family, which runs a school in Delhi’s Kirari and has an older daughter studying in Dehradun, has not alleged foul play, and the bodies were released after autopsies.