Mumbai: Lipi V Rastogi, daughter of a senior IAS couple, died by suicide from a building at Nariman Point, early Monday morning, officials said.
The deceased is the daughter of IAS officer Vikas C Rastogi, attached with the Higher & Technical Education Department, and Radhika V Rastogi, posted in the Home Department.
Around 4am this morning, Lipi jumped from the 10th floor of the building and was rushed to GT Hospital where she was declared dead on admission.
Living with her parents at Suniti Apartments, housing government officers near the YB Chavan Centre, 26-year-old Lipi has left behind a suicide note which has been seized by the Cuffe Parade Police.
A student of Law at a college in Sonipat, Haryana, Lipi has reportedly pointed to academic pressures, which may have prompted her to take the extreme step. She also claimed in her suicide note that nobody should be blamed for it.
The Cuffe Parade Police have filed an accidental death report and launched an investigation. Her last rites are slated for later Monday.
IANS
