Who among the following lives adjacent to Deepali?

Explanation

Using the provided statements in the order given below: Smita lives two floors above Akshara. Deepali lives one floor below Akshara but in different types of flat. Preeti and Priyanka live adjacent to each other and Aastha lives in the floor immediate below in which Priyanka lives and in the same flat. Deepti and Aastha doesn’t live in the same flat. Shikha doesn’t live in flat A. (This cancels Case-2, As in Case-2 possible place for Shikha is only in Flat A.) So the final arrangement is given below: