Air hostess suicide: pilot sent to police custody

Arjun’s father Balchandra Menon, who was present in the court on Friday, denied that his son was in a relationship with the deceased. “My son is innocent… Arjun knew Sucheta but they were just friends and there was no relationship between them. He is being falsely implicated. The matter is sub-judice,” said Balchandra Menon.

However, investigators said that the exchange of text messages between the couple on the day Sucheta committed suicide is enough evidence to prove that they had an affair. “Sucheta had stopped replying to Menon’s messages after he left the hotel room on Saturday evening. There are messages like ‘why don’t you reply to my messages or answer my calls’ sent by Menon to Sucheta,” said a police officer.

Amarendra Pargaonkar, Arjun Menon’ advocate, said: “The remand application merely mentioned that text messages exchanged between the accused and the deceased… The defence has not been intimated about the contents of the messages so far.”