Sajjan and Ambika on their wedding day.

Ranchi, July 28: Sajjan Sharma, the husband of Ranchi-girl Ambika who died after a fall from a 10th floor apartment in Moscow on Tuesday night, is learnt to have told the woman?s family that he would not come to India with the body.

Basant Sharma, the elder brother of the 32-year-old woman, claimed that Sajjan sent him an SMS late tonight saying he would not travel to India with his wife?s body.

The SMS comes hours after Sajjan, a Calcutta-based tea exporter, reportedly called up Basant on his cellphone and laid down the ?conditions? for bringing back the body.

?He asked us to write an official letter stating that we felt he had nothing to do with the death of Ambika and that we were certain of his innocence. He said we should send the letter through the Russian embassy in India to their Indian counterpart in Russia,? said Basant.

Only then, Basant quoted Sajjan as saying, would he come to India. ?If we did not agree, he told us to travel to Russia and take the body. He has refused to come. We have informed our family members in Calcutta and asked them to forward the information to the embassy. Sajjan wants us to back off. We will not,? said Basant, who returned from Calcutta today. His father Dindayal Sharma is camping in Calcutta in the hope that he would catch a glimpse of his daughter one last time.

Sajjan sounded frantic when contacted over the phone in Moscow. ?I don?t want to speak now. Aap logon se bahut baat ho chuki hai (I have spoken a lot with you people). I have not made any calls. Leave me alone,? he shrieked. Asked when the body would be flown out, he said: ?I don?t know anything about this.? He did not answer calls to his cellphone after this.

A top official in the Indian embassy in Moscow said on condition of anonymity that the post-mortem was conducted yesterday.

There were some unconfirmed reports that the embassy had requested the Russian police to carry out a second autopsy after they were informed that the woman?s family suspected foulplay. But the embassy official did not confirm this.

?Yesterday the post-mortem was carried out and the body has been preserved. We have asked the husband (Sajjan) to immediately take the body to India. I can?t say anything more,? he said.