Ghaziabad, April 8 An 18-year-old girl died under mysterious circumstances after falling from a high-rise residential complex in Ghaziabad, triggering protests by her family and locals, before police persuaded the family to perform her last rites on Wednesday.
The deceased, who had completed her Class 12 education from a nearby colony, had accompanied her father to the Jaipuria Sunrise Greens society in the Indirapuram area on Tuesday, where he works washing cars and ironing clothes.
According to police, CCTV footage showed the girl walking alone inside the complex, and within minutes she fell from the 16th floor of a tower, leading to her death on the spot.
Following the incident on Tuesday, the girl's family staged a protest outside the complex and initially prevented police from taking the body for post-mortem.
After persuasion, police sent the body for autopsy and registered a case of murder against unknown persons, even as the family alleged that the girl had been sexually assaulted.
On Wednesday, tensions escalated as the family refused to perform the last rites and residents blocked the CISF road in Indirapuram, demanding that police release CCTV footage from the time of the incident.
Assistant Commissioner of Police (Indirapuram) Abhishek Srivastava said that police held talks with the family, following which the cremation was carried out.
He said that the post-mortem report has ruled out sexual assault, while multiple CCTV footages from key locations in the complex have been examined and further analysis is underway.
Police said that the case is being probed from all angles to ascertain the exact sequence of events leading to the girl's death.