Thrown off 4th floor with hands tied, Ghaziabad blogger dies; estranged husband, two others arrested

AGRA: A 30-year-old blogger was thrown off from the fourth floor of her flat’s balcony with her hands tied up allegedly by her separated husband in Agra’s Tajganj area on Friday. The woman was staying with her Facebook friend in a live-in relationship after separating from her husband.
The victim was identified as Ritika Singh, who was an influencer and had over 44,000 followers on Instagram.She used to provide tips on fashion, food and travel.
The incident took place around 11 am at Om Shree apartment, located in Nagla Mewati area. Her friend was also at home at the time.
Meanwhile, police have arrested the victim's estranged husband and two others.

Police said preliminary investigations revealed that Ritika, a resident of Ghaziabad, had tied the knot with Firozabad’s Akash Gautam in 2014. After three years, she befriended Vipul Agarwal, also from Firozabad, through Facebook. Later ,she separated from her husband in 2018 and started living with Vipul.

The couple moved into the flat in Om Shri apartment on a rent of Rs 13,000 just two-and-a half-months ago,
On Friday, Akash along with four people, including two women, arrived at the flat. As soon as they were let in, they allegedly started assaulting Vipul and Ritika. Vipul told the police that they tied his hands with scarves and locked him in the bathroom while Ritika’s hands were tied with a rope and then, she was thrown off from the balcony of the flat.
Vipul alleged that Akash wanted to kill him too but he started screaming after breaking the washroom’s windowpane, attracting neighbours’ attention. As the neighbours gathered outside of the flat, two of the men ran away while Akash and the two women were nabbed and handed over to police.
Circle officer (Sadar) Archana Singh told TOI that an FIR is being registered under relevant IPC sections. The woman’s body has been sent for postmortem and her family members have been informed. Police are scanning CCTV footage of the apartment for further investigations.