A probe into the death of a law student who fell from the seventh floor of a high-rise apartment in Uttar Pradesh’s Noida on Saturday has revealed new details. A case has been registered as abetment to suicide, and the police are investigating the role of his friends and a suspected fight with his alleged girlfriend.
The student, identified as Tapas, was a resident of neighbouring Ghaziabad and an LLB student at a private university in Noida. According to the police, he had gone to the Supreme Towers apartment complex in Sector 99 to attend a party hosted by a friend in a seventh-floor flat. Several of his friends, including a woman he was allegedly close to, were present at the gathering. Tapas and the woman, both studying law but belonging to different communities, are believed to have had a fight earlier, police sources said.