Even today the death about Divya Bharti has been in controversy. Was her
death was an accident, suicide or an act of murder. Did she commit
suicide? Was it an accident? Or was she really pushed out of her
balcony? Conspiracy theories continue to persist about her death even
after more than two decades.
According to the official documents
associated to her case, there were three people were with her at the
time of the incident, her dress designer Neeta Lulla, her husband Dr
Shyam (a psychiatrist) and her maid Amrita. It also shows that her maid
was very attached to her because she had been taking care of Divya since
her birth. Amrita went into acute depression after the incident and
stopped interacting with people. Police records mentions that Amrita
suffered a massive heart attack soon after and succumbed to it. She died
within a month of Divya Bharti's demise and so much of the information
buried out with her death. Apart from then, her husband Sajid
Nadiadwala, her mother Meeta Bharti and her brother Kunal were also
questioned by the police however they were absent during the time of the
incident.
The Officials who led the investigation in Divya
Bharti's Death were Inspector J G Jadhav of Versova Police station (the
investigating officer of the case) and the Chief Medical Officer of
Cooper Hospital, Dr Tripathy (who signed the death certificate) had some
first-hand account of what might have happened to Divya Bharti that
night but the lack of evidences to verify the reason and cause of the
incident led to closure of the case in 1998.
Regardless, we have
tried to collect the information from the people and draw some
conclusions of what actually might have happened to Divya Bharti the
following night.
The Fateful Night
Date: April 5, 1993,
Place: 5th floor, Tulsi Apartments, Versova, Andheri West, Mumbai
Time: 9:00 pm
Divya
had returned from Chennai after a shoot and on the same following
night, She was supposed to fly to Hyderabad for another shoot but she
postponed her travel because she wanted to make settlement with her new
apartment. That day, Divya was injured so had a bandage on her left foot
and had informed her producers, she won't be available for the shoot.
She had informed everybody she would be going to Hyderabad the very next
day.
Earlier, that day Divya had been to Neptune Apartments in
Bandra West with a broker and had finalized a large flat that she was
considering to buy. Getting a good flat in Mumbai wasn't easy even at
that times, so, Divya was priviledged that day and was constantly
describing her brother Kunal ‘nice four-bedroom apartment’ whom she
adored so much. Kunal left early that evening after the conversation.
Divya
then, got a phone call and was informed Neeta Lulla and her husband who
were coming down to see her at the Versova flat. Her temporary
apartment at Versova was registed to someone else, Sajid and Divya had
just rented it out. We still do not have account on who actually
possessed the building. Divya was also entitled for a long outdoor
schedule to Mauritius to shoot for Sajid's film Andolan. Neeta was
supposed to make the costumes for the film and after the schedule, Divya
was supposed to move into her new apartment. So, everything was
happening just as planned and naturally, Divya seemed to be very excited
that night.
Neeta and Dr Shyam Lulla arrived around 10 pm and
all of them sat down and talked in the living room. The television was
on and Divya had two alcohol bottles (Mauritian sugarcane wine and Black
Label whisky) on the table. The whisky bottle had been opened, while
the wine bottle was intact.
Her maid Amrita was in the living
room and Divya was talking to her. Amrita soon left for the kitchen to
fry munchies. While the conversation was still on between the two, Divya
walked towards the window while still talking to her maid loudly who
was in the kitchen now. At that time Neeta and her husband were watching
'something interesting' on the VCR and hence, were not the part in the
conversation that was going on in between Divya and Amrita.
The Last Moments Of Divya Bharti
In
the Versova flat where Divya had been living, the living room didn't
have any balcony instead had an open window and didn't have any frame of
metal bar on in. Though all the other windows in the building seemed to
have frame to stop people getting through it. There was a car parking
slot just right below the window but that day there were no cars parked
on that place.
In the meantime, nobody had actually noticed that
Divya had climbed out of the window and landed on the narrow ledge below
it which was merely 12 inches wide. She landed on the ledge with her
back towards the living room then she tried to turn around to get the
hold on the window frame. It was that unfortunate moment while she tried
turning around on the ledge extending her hand to hold the window frame
she lost her balance and she slipped.
When Divya landed on the
ground, the neighbours nearby heard a huge thud. Divya had landed on
her back on the concrete ground and she has severe injuries with her
head. Everything happened in the matter of a few minutes. When people
heard the sound, everyone came running to her place. She was lying in
pool of blood... she was still somehow concious and seemed as she was
trying to speak something.
She was then carried to the hospital.
She was alive on her way, but her pulse rate had started to falling
rapidly. She died at the emergency department of Cooper Hospital. The
doctors proclaimed her immediate cause of death was heavy internal
bleeding due to the injury at the back of her head. Her skull had
several fractures.
This brought a tragic end to life of Divya
Bharti... a star that had so much of potential, the star that had
formidable future and the star that would have certainly made her place
in the bollywood and remain a legend just as many other stars did...
But for Divya... it was a misfortune!!
