Chennai: Techie jumps to death from terrace

Chennai: A 25-year-old woman software professional, who was on her way back home from her office, walked into a 16-storied apartment complex on Pallavaram – Thuraipakkam Radial road and committed suicide by jumping from the top of the building on Thursday. The deceased was identified P Pandeeswari, working in the office of CTS located in MEPZ in Tambaram. A native of Madurai, she was staying in rented premises in Madipakkam.

Police said that her family in Madurai had been forcing her to get married while she was opposed to it saying she wanted to support the family for some more time. She was the daughter of a daily-wage worker whose elder brother Yuvaraj is working in Chennai. When Pandeeswari went to her native place for Deepavali, her parents told her to get ready for marriage. Though she resisted and asked for her brother to get married first, the family strongly told her she should get married. She was asked to come to Madurai over the weekend to finalise a marriage proposal, police said after talking to her brother on Thursday.

On Thursday afternoon she went to Skypark apartment complex. When the security guard blocked her, she gave her name, address and phone number saying she was going to meet a resident on the 14th floor of the housing complex. The guard allowed her inside. Twenty minutes later she had jumped to death from the building’s  terrace.  Pandeeswari died on the spot and police tracked her background after calling up numbers from the contact list in her mobile phone.

“It was her brother who gave us the details. We informed him that she had an accident and asked him to rush to the Chromepet GH. Only after he reached GH we told him what had happened,” police said.