22-year-old Delhi man falls into Yamuna, family alleges suicide

A DFS officer said that a businessman man identified as Vinod Pal, claimed that he saw his son Akash jumping from the bridge in a video given by his friends. Vinod told the officer that Akash, a resident of Karawal Nagar area of North East Delhi, has been missing since 11 am and that his friends told him that he was on the bridge to make some video.

The police who are yet to find any video which shows Akash Pal voluntarily jumping in Yamuna, are now probing whether he committed suicide or fell by accident.

Akash Pal was also involved in his family’s garment business, the police said.

The police are now interrogating Akash’s friends and family to ascertain the reason for him to go to the bridge. They said his family isn’t aware of any mental stress that Akash Pal was going through.

On Sunday, the body of a 19-year-old Delhi University student, Sneha Debnath, was recovered from the Yamuna after she allegedly died by suicide over a week ago. She was last spotted on July 7, also near the Signature Bridge. Her body was recovered from the river stretch below the Geeta Colony Flyover, the police said.

Officially inaugurated in November 2018 by the then chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, the part of the bridge where Pal and Debnath were last seen falls under the jurisdiction of Timarpur police station.