One of the staffers at a restaurant in the building, who helped Rimple Jain take her mother Veena to their house after she allegedly fell, has told the police that they had told her “aunty (Veena) wasn’t breathing”. He has also told the police that the staffers asked Rimple whether she wanted to take Veena to the doctor or a hospital, and asked her to inform her relatives, but she shooed them away. He claimed that she only said, “I will manage.”

The Kalachowkie police, who have recorded the statements of six persons who were in touch with Rimple, including the staffer, have revealed this striking detail in the Veena Jain death case. The staffer of the Chinese eatery lives in a room just next to the Jains`. “Early on December 27, we staffers were sleeping when one of our colleagues who had gone out, came and told us the neighbouring aunty had fallen down. He and I and another of our colleagues went to help her. We took her to her home. We found a bruise on her hand,” said the worker.