Maid who got her employer arrested, commits suicide !

• On: Jun 06, 2010 | 12:00 AM

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On February 27, 2010 there was a complaint by a certain Stella Augustine against her employer Mrs.Gurpreet Jaggi. Stella was a maid who worked at Mrs.Jaggi's place. She had lodged a complaint that Mrs.Jaggi and her cousin would beat her up in their home. The Navi Mumbai arrested Jaggi and her cousin. Mrs. Jaggi tried to quash the case but the police did not agree. Later due to unknown circumstances, Stella herself filed an affidavit and withdrew her case.

Almost after 3 months of the incident, Gurpreet Jaggi was in rude shock on Saturday Evening when she returned from work to see her maid Stella Augustine hanging from the ceiling in her bedroom.

Gurpreet says that despite all odds she had stood by Stella and loved her. She had also made a statement before the HC saying she should not be separated from Stella. “She was not a maid, she was family for me. I have given my statement to the police and they are investigating the matter,” she added.

Gurpreet has given some love letters she found in Stella’s possession, to the police. These were allegedly written to a young boy residing in the same building. She declined to elaborate on this.It is also learnt that on one of Stella’s hands, it was written - ‘I love you ...”The name of the boy was also written.

Senior Inspector Rafique Bagwan of Navi Mumbai NRI Sagri Police Station said, “We are looking into all the aspects of the case. The post mortem report is out but I have not seen it so I cannot speak about it.”

It may be noted that the HC had directed that Stella could stay with Gurpreet but had also instructed the police to visit once in two weeks and keep a track of her well being.However, despite the court order, the police did not visit even once. When questioned about this, Bagwan said that he will have to seek details on this from the officer handling the case.

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