Last WhatsApp message indicates flight attendant driven to suicide

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, July 18

Anissia Batra (39), flight attendant who worked with a German airline, had texted a message on WhatsApp to one of her friends before she committed suicide, saying, "I am going to kill myself today because Mayank has driven me to it."

According to police, her friends who received this message will be called for questioning because Anissia had also asked her friend to come to her house and call the police as she needed help when she alleged that she was locked in a room by Mayank.

Delhi Police suspect that the flight attendant, who allegedly committed suicide in south Delhi's Panchsheel Park, was upset with her husband as she had recently discovered that he was a divorcee.

Meanwhile, police will soon be asking Mayank Singhvi's former wife to join the probe, a senior police officer privy to the probe said.

To know from his former wife whether Mayank, a software engineer, was aggressive in his behaviour and the allegation which has been slammed on him that he is mentally not stable.

Further police will be summoning Mayank's family to join the probe on after July 20, as his parents had been granted exemption from joining the probe by the court till July 20 on personal grounds. They would be questioned after that, police said.

Deceased flight attendant's father Major General RS Batra (retd) had also written a complaint to the SHO, Hauz Khas, fearing that his daughter was in problem and police need to look into the matter regarding her safety and well-being.

Batra on June 27 had sent a written complaint to the SHO saying his daughter Anissia Batra Singhvi married to Mayank Singhvi, a resident of N-166 Panchsheel Park, and his father R S Singhvi resides at N-39 Panchsheel Park. "My daughter got married to Mayank Singhvi on February 23, 2016 at Delhi Cantonment. Mayank Singhvi is a violent man and is harassing my daughter and physically abusing her. We have been keeping the matter quiet to keep the marriage alive but now his violence is becoming more frequent."

And now the matter has come to a stage where the husband and in-laws asked to vacate her husband house in Panchsheel Park. I also fear for her safety as her life could be in danger," the complaint said.

The flight attendant suicide case has come up with a few unanswered questions which the investigators need to look into. One of the important queries by her family is why the scene of crime, the house, not sealed and why did the forensic team not visit the spot immediately but delayed it for over 24 hours during which a lot of evidence could have been tampered with.