Woman techie jumps to death in Singapore, parents seek cops help in Chennai

Chennai: Hours after a 25-year-old reportedly committed suicide by jumping off from a high-rise apartment building in Singapore on Wednesday, her parents from Triplicane in Chennai reached the city police chief’s office seeking help to being the body and also to arrest her husband.

Srinivasan and Usha said that their daughter Deepika, a software professional, committed suicide by jumping off from the 15th floor in her residential apartment on Wednesday morning.

Deepika messaged her elder sister Deepa, in Saidapet, at 7am on Wednesday in which she said “If anything happened to me you should ask my husband to take expenses to bring my body to India”.

Deepika, gave birth to a baby recently on September 2 this year.  Deepika’s parents who reside at Sunguvar Lane in Triplicane, pleaded for help and started falling at the feet of almost everybody, even few scribes they met at the city police commissioner’s office.

Later they met T K Rajendran and submitted a complaint to take steps to bring their daughter’s body and their granddaughter to Chennai. “Central crime branch is looking in to the petition,” a senior police officer said.

Deepa said that her sister was restless and she sent her another message few days ago saying she was depressed and decided to end her life. Deepika’s parents also alleged that her husband Jai Krishnan was demanding Rs10 lakh for her labour expenses at a private hospital in Singapore.  Just before the marriage, Jai Krishnan’s family wanted to call off the marriage, held in September last year, saying that Deepika was wearing spectacles.

Srinivasan and Usha had not only handled the expenses of the marriage but they also gave 35 sovereigns of gold jewellery their daughter, who was working in a software firm in Chennai while husband Jai Krishnan worked in a company in Singapore as a technical analyst.

According to Srinivasan, when he asked Jai Krishnan to send Deepika to Chennai for delivery his son-in-law refused saying he wanted his child to get Singapore citizenship.

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