Kamal Ghorui
GURGAON: A 38-year-old man, who told his wife he was taking their two-year-old daughter downstairs to play in the park, jumped to his death from the 23rd floor of a residential tower in Joyville society in Sector 102 on Monday morning, carrying the toddler in his arms.It was around 7.30am when the father took his daughter to the terrace on the 23rd floor. Police said they received information around 8am and rushed to the spot. Both were taken to a nearby private hospital, where doctors declared them dead on arrival.The man had been living in the society for the past two years with his wife and their daughter. The family, originally from Nangloi in Delhi, ran a public school in Kirari, which teaches students up to Class V. “The wife was in the kitchen preparing breakfast when her husband told her that he was taking their daughter out to play in the park. Soon after, residents heard a loud commotion near the tower and gathered outside,” a senior officer said.Hearing the noise, the wife stepped out too. “She saw a man and a child lying on the ground, their clothes soaked in blood. She rushed downstairs with other residents, only to discover that the two were her husband and daughter,” the officer added.The man’s brother told police he had been suffering from various health problems since the Covid pandemic. According to sources, he had completely lost vision in one eye, while sight in the other had also deteriorated, leaving him deeply troubled for a long time.The couple got married in 2014. They would often leave their daughter with her grandparents when they travelled to Delhi to run their school. The family has not alleged any foul play and declined to file a complaint. The bodies were handed over to them after an autopsy.Police, however, said they are examining the sequence of events, especially why the father took the child with him before leaping from the terrace. “The circumstances appear suspicious, which is why we have initiated an investigation,” the officer said.
