Siliguri, Aug. 7: The lure of a livelihood away from home has led to the mysterious death of another young woman from north Bengal in the National Capital Region of Delhi.
Anita Bhujel, aged about 19, a resident of Samsing in the Kalimpong subdivision, was found hanging in her room in Sector 82 of Noida yesterday morning.
She had been working in the household of a senior manager of a private sector company and had retired after dinner on Tuesday night. When there was no response from inside the room the next morning, her employers broke the door open and found her hanging from a beam in the ceiling.
The sub-inspector of Noida’s Phase II police station, Satbir Singh, said over the phone: “The body was sent for post-mortem and the preliminary report says death was caused by hanging.”
Her employer, Dinesh Deshpande, informed the police soon after the body was found. “Photographs have been taken and the room was searched. But no suicide note was found. It is not clear what prompted the woman to kill herself,” Singh said. He added that the the deceased’s father Kumar Bhujel had been informed about the incident.
Anita’s aunt Rita Thapa, who stays in Noida, had visited her around 2pm on Tuesday, a few hours before the girl took her life. “We are questioning Rita and her husband Raju Thapa. She reportedly had a quarrel with Anita during their last meeting,” Singh said.
It was Rita who had brought Anita from her home and given her the job of a maid in the Noida household about two months ago. The police are investigating whether there are more women like Anita who have been brought to Delhi by Rita from north Bengal.
Rojalina Kudur (19) from Kamala Tea Estate was found hanging at the house where she worked in Faridabad on June 3. The second death was that of 18-year-old Rita Oraon, a resident of Oodlabari near Malbazar on June 24 in Sector 21D of Faridabad, Haryana,
The body of 19-year-old Ria Das, who hails from the Binnaguri Tea Estate, was found in the courtyard of the IOC residential complex in Sector 62 of Noida on June 30.
