Tapasi Choudhury at her residence in Sidhgora on Sunday. Picture by Srinivas

Jamshedpur, April 17: The six-member CBI team, here in the city since Friday to probe into the mysterious death of trainee airhostess Mousumi Choudhury in a Bistupur hotel almost two years ago, today did not visit her Sidhgora residence to question mother Tapasi.

A baffled and disappointed Tapasi, who waited all day for the sleuths, said: “My daughter fell victim to conspiracy. I want all those involved in her death to be put behind bars.” The widowed mother, at home with son Gopal (18), told The Telegraph that she came to know that the CBI had come for a fresh probe into Mousumi’s death from newspaper reports. “I am hopeful that this time the CBI will dig out convincing evidence to substantiate my claim that my daughter was murdered,” she said.

 

Sources said the CBI team would question the doctor at MGM who performed Mousumi’s autopsy, Tata Main Hospital doctors, sub-inspector Neeraj Mishra, fellow student trainees and officials of Airhostess Academy, the cradle in which the teenager was studying. The team had already quizzed the management of Hotel Sonnet on Saturday.

The 18-year-old aspiring airhostess was found on May 9, 2009 with serious injuries at Hotel Sonnet’s laundry room. She was admitted to Tata Main Hospital’s critical care unit, where she succumbed on May 13. The police had registered a case of unnatural death, even though mother Tapasi and maternal uncle Biren Choudhury kept on alleging that Mousumi was subjected to sexual assault before being fatally injured.

Tapasi moved to Jharkhand High Court, leading then Chief Justice Gyan Sudha Mishra to order a CBI enquiry. The CBI gave a clean chit to the management of Hotel Sonnet and stated the death was an accident. But, Mishra was not satisfied with the probe and had instructed a fresh inquiry be conducted. This led the hotel to move Supreme Court to stay the high court’s order. But the apex court ordered also ordered a fresh enquiry by the CBI.

The bereaved mother said she underwent acute mental trauma after losing her daughter and suffered financial problem.

“I am now badly in debt following the Rs 1.18 lakh loan I had taken from Central Bank of India for Mousumi’s airhostess course,” she said. “Had my daughter been alive, I would not have faced these problems.”