27-year-old pregnant woman commits suicide in northwest Delhi's Keshav Puram

A 27-year-old woman who was four months pregnant committed suicide by hanging herself from a ceiling fan in her northwest Delhi home, police said on Monday.

The victim was identified as Parul Jain, a resident of Tri Nagar in Keshav Puram, they said.

The police found the body of the woman hanging from a ceiling fan in her room situated on the second floor of her house in Tri Nagar. She had used a saree to hang herself, a senior police officer said.

The body was sent to Babu Jagjivan Ram Hospital for post-mortem.

No suicide note has been recovered till now, police said.

A case under sections 498A (husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty), 304B (dowry death) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) has been registered, police said.

Father of the victim, Hari Mohan (59) said, "I got a call at around 11.50 pm on Sunday from Parul's in-laws that she had committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling fan. When I rushed to the spot, I saw that police had already taken my daughter's body to BJRM hospital."