Woman jumps off newly constructed Atal Setu bridge in Mumbai, search operations on

On Monday afternoon, she took a taxi from near her house in Parel and asked the driver to take her to the Atal Setu bridge, the police said. “At around 14.3 kilometres from Mumbai, the woman started asking the driver to stop the taxi. The driver was reluctant but as she insisted, the driver stopped following which she got off and went a few steps behind before jumping off the bridge,” said senior police inspector Rajendra Kote of the Nhava Sheva police station.

Subsequently, the driver informed the Navi Mumbai police, who, with the help of the coastal police, local villagers, and rescuers, began an operation to trace her.

During an inquiry, the Navi Mumbai police learnt that she was from Parel and her father had reported a missing complaint at the Bhoiwada police station. The police said she called her father on Monday to inform him that she was going out for some work.

However, after the father returned home, he saw the purported suicide note written by Shah in which she stated that she was going to the Atal Setu bridge, also known as the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link, to end her life.

“The father then reported the matter at the Bhoiwada police station. We then started looking for her, and while scrutinising the CCTV footage, we learnt that she boarded a taxi at around 1.30 pm and as we were looking for more details on her movement, we came to know that she attempted suicide on the bridge,” an officer said.

While the Bhoiwada police in Mumbai registered a missing report, the Nhava Sheva police in Navi Mumbai mentioned the incident in their dairy.

Kote added, “We have found CCTV footage of her jumping into the sea at 2.14 pm. We are trying to trace her. She has jumped into the deep sea.”