An elderly woman who used to live alone in her three-storey home at Golf Green died after falling from the terrace on Sunday morning.

Police said the Russa Road house was found locked from inside, suggesting that Binita Mukherjee, 62, was alone when the incident happened.

Investigators said the woman either committed suicide or fell accidentally from the terrace.

She was found in a pool of blood on the road in front of her home around 11am.

“It seems the woman fell on the cables and then landed on the road. When her domestic help arrived, she found the house locked from inside. We entered the house after breaking open the padlock on the collapsible gate in the presence of a relative,” said an officer.

Mukherjee was declared dead at Baghajatin State General Hospital. Officers said they informed her son Debasish Mukherjee, who lives in Lucknow, of her mother’s death.

“No complaint was lodged till late on Sunday. Nor was there any evidence suggesting foul play,” an officer said. An unnatural death case has been registered.