Mumbai: The sessions court has on Friday granted bail to Aditya Pandit, 27, the resident of Haryana, booked for abatement of suicide of an Air India pilot, Srishti Tuli.

Pandit had last week approached the sessions court at Dindoshi for bail claiming that it was him who first found her hanging and took her to hospital.

Tuli, who lived in a rented flat in Marol area, was found dead in the early hours of November 25. A day later police had arrested Pandit, with whom Tuli was said to be in relationship.

Tuli's father had alleged that before she took the extreme step, the two stayed togather for few days. However, on the day of the incident Pandit left for Delhi at around 1 PM.

It has been further alleged that the two had dispute over food preferences as Tuli was a non-vegetarian and Pandit a vegetarian. The complainant has alleged only because of the said reason, she might have committed suicide.

Pandit's lawyer Aniket Nikam however, argued that the complaint filed by her father itself shows that moments before she ended her life Tuli spoke to her mother and she sounded normal.

"Merely because there were some fights between them it would not mean that the applicant had any criminal intent. In order to attract the charge of abetment it is necessary to show that the deceased was left with no other option but to commit suicide. This was not so in the present case. The deceased was an educated lady. If she was unhappy in the relationship she could have always walked out of it or if she was being harassed by the accused she could have complained about it," Nikam argued.

Besides, Pandit in his bail plea had contended that he tried to save her life.

"The applicant had made necessary telephone calls to the deceased and have found that the deceased is not picking up the phone, he himself has gone personally to the said premises and since, she was no opening the door, it is the Applicant who has called a key maker and get the door opened and thereafter, it was found that she was hanging herself and as a law abiding citizen, he has also removed her to the Hospital in order to save her life however, the said efforts become infructuous," Pandit claimed in his bail plea.