The incident took place at around 10.13 AM on the Blue Line when the woman, identified as Omwati jumped in front of a Vaishali bound metro. The incident caused a delay of around half-an-hour in metro operations which resumed around 11.45 AM.
Omwati was a resident of Raghuveer Nagar area were she lived with her father who is a security guard and two brothers. She was working as a computer operator on contract basis. She left home at around 9 AM for office but jumped before the metro at the station, police said.
Investigators have recovered a suicide note from her possession in which she has said that she was responsible for the extreme step.
Her body has been handed over to her family after postmortem.
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