NEW DELHI: “I am going to commit suicide, watch me die,” flight attendant Anissia Singhvi had texted to her husband minutes before she plunged to her death from the terrace of their south Delhi home. Four days after the death, police arrested Anissia’s investment banker husband, Mayank Singhvi, on Monday evening.Singhvi was questioned for about an hour before being placed under arrest on charges of causing her death due to harassment for dowry.DCP (south) Romi Baaniya said initial investigations indicate that Mayank and Anissia had started arguing on Friday over sale of a property in Vasant Kunj owned by her. After a verbal spat, she had climbed to the terrace and locked herself there before taking the plunge, police said.After reading her message, Mayank had rushed to the terrace and had to tear apart a net on a window to open the terrace door. But by that time, Anissia had already jumped off, police said. A worker had witnessed the fall.In another message to a friend, Anissia asked her to call the police. “He will kill me, please inform the police, please help,” she allegedly wrote.The family of Anissia, who worked for Lufthansa, has raised questions on the police probe and accused them of shielding the accused. Her brother, Karan Batra, said the family had given a written complaint to the police on June 27 about how she was being harassed and had sought intervention from the women’s cell. However, no one apparently approached her.The family also alleged that the autopsy was not video-recorded. Police subsequently formed another panel to do a second autopsy on Monday afternoon.Anissia had told her parents that she was being harassed by Mayank since June after she had decided to sell the property, her family has said. Karan said Anissia had been seeking help from her friends after being constantly harassed by her husband and in-laws. “We had registered a complaint on June 27 after things had gone really overboard. The Hauz Khas police station had taken it lightly. My sister would not have died if they had acted promptly,” he said.In the complaint, Anissia’s father Major General Rupinder Singh had said that his daughter's life was under threat. “Mayank is very abusive and violent. He has beaten up my daughter several times. I am going to Chandigarh for some family emergency. If anything happens to my daughter, Mayank will try and make it look like an accident or suicide,” he had written in the complaint.Friends say Mayank and Anissia had met through a matrimonial website and had fallen in love, after which they got married in 2016. “Ever since the marriage, she was being harassed. Mayank had used his political connections to cover up everything that was going on. She felt threatened and intimidated all the time and told us about it. When we approached the police, we were assured of action but nothing happened,” said Karan.The family alleged that even during the probe, the cops had allowed Mayank and his family to visit the crime spot several times. “We are sure that evidence has been tampered with after the police left. After the crime team departed, the house was left unlocked. The FSL team arrived the next morning. By then, a lot of evidence might have been tampered,” said Deepti, Anissia’s friend.Police, however, refuted these claims saying that crucial evidence, including mobile phones, were recovered before the suspects were allowed to enter the house.Initial autopsy reports suggest that the woman had died out of injuries on her thoracic lumber and a broken neck. “The autopsy was conducted for the second time by a panel of five doctors and video recorded, after we got a request from the Delhi government,” said Sudhir Gupta, HOD of forensic sciences at AIIMS.

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