Day before suicide, Gagan told me he was scared of his wife, in-laws: Father

The wife and in-laws of a 39-year-old man, who committed suicide by jumping from his 10th-floor flat here, were booked on Tuesday for alleged suicide abetment after a complaint by the father of the deceased, police said.

Gagan Gautam was staying alone in an apartment at the Jaypee Pavilion Court in Noida Sector 128 for quite some time now owing to bitter relationship with his wife, and also had financial troubles, they said.

Gautam's father, who lives in Delhi's Shahdara area, has accused his deceased son's wife Lata Rani, her father, mother and brother of making death threats to his son over familial dispute, a police official said.

"A complaint was made by Gautam's father, who accused the wife and the in-laws of his son of pushing him to a situation where he ended his life and an FIR has been registered under Indian Penal Code section 306 (suicide abetment)," SHO Expressway police station Bhuvnesh Kumar said.

Gautam's father said the couple got married in 2014 and his son was a ...