Apparently fed up with the torture and abuse by her husband and in-laws, a 37-year-old woman jumped off the 7th floor of a building along with her five-year-old son in Koparkhairane on Monday. While the woman died due to the fall, the child survived with grievous injuries. The police have arrested the husband and booked his sister and mother for abetment.

Arati Sharma married Vijendra Malhotra, 43, in January 2016 and started living in Koparkhairane. The couple had a son in 2017. Malhotra works at the APMC Market, Navi Mumbai. Arati’s brother Vishal Sharma told the police, “For a few years things were good but later on everything went downhill. They [husband, mother-in-law and sister-in-law] started torturing my sister and would abuse her over every small issue. They did not allow us to visit her or let her speak to us on the phone.”