The lady’s father reported the matter at Bhoiwada police station in Mumbai. (Representational)

Mumbai:

Within the first such incident on the newly-built Atal Setu, a 43-year-old girl has jumped off the ocean bridge connecting south Mumbai to Navi Mumbai, police stated on Wednesday.

The police are but to find her physique, and have recovered a purported suicide notice from her home in Mumbai, an official stated.

The lady, Kinjal Kantilal Shah, a physician by occupation, had been going through melancholy and was present process remedy, police stated.

She stayed together with her father on the Navin Asha constructing on Dadasaheb Phalke Street in Parel space of Mumbai, police stated.

On Monday afternoon, she took a taxi from close to her home and requested the motive force to take her to Atal Setu, police stated.

“After a brief distance on the ocean bridge, the girl began asking the motive force to cease the taxi. The driving force was reluctant however she insisted, so the motive force stopped the car. She bought out and jumped off the bridge,” stated senior police inspector Rajendra Kote of the Nhava Sheva police station.

The driving force then knowledgeable the Navi Mumbai police, who, with the assistance of the coastal police, native villagers, and rescuers, started an operation to hint her.

Police stated she had referred to as her father on Monday to tell him that she was going out for some work. When her father returned house, he noticed her “suicide notice”, during which she stated she was going to Atal Setu to finish her life, the official added.

Her father reported the matter on the Bhoiwada police station in Mumbai.

Police then began on the lookout for her, and whereas scrutinising the CCTV footage, learnt that she boarded a taxi round 1.30 pm on Monday and tried suicide on the bridge, the official stated.

Within the notice, she cited extreme melancholy spanning eight years as the rationale for her resolution to finish her life by leaping off Atal Setu, police stated.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the trans harbour hyperlink, the nation’s longest sea bridge, in January. The ocean bridge, named the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Sewri–Nhava Sheva Atal Setu, connects South Mumbai to Navi Mumbai.

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