P Padmaja

HYDERABAD : A female employee of Bank of America (BOA) committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling at Sudharshan Nagar , Gachibowli on Sunday evening. The victim took the extreme step due to the alleged harassment by her husband who was demanding additional dowry. She sent an SMS to her husband informing that she was committing suicide.

Gachibowli police inspector Chandrasekhar said that P Padmaja,35, who works in the back end operations of BOA was found hanging by her husband P Girish Narasimhan , a Systems Administrator in Tech Mahindra. When he shifted Padmaja’s body she was declared brought dead.

Padmaja left a SMS to Girish that she is going to die, but Girish who went out to watch India-Pakistan Cricket match, initially ignored it. Later as her phone was not being attended, Girish alerted one of his relatives to visit his house to check. Girish was informed by his relative hat Padmaja was found hanging. Later, he reached the house and shifted Padmaja to KIMS, where she was declared brought dead. It was then he informed Satyanarayana, the father of the victim.

Padmaja and Girish got married in April 2016 and at the time of marriage Girish was given 1.8 acres of land, Rs 2.5 lakhs cash and gold ornaments. Things were fine till the first month, and it was later the accused, his two brothers-Shankar, Venu Gopal- and few other family members started to harass the victim by demanding additional dowry, gold and wanted to put the 1.8 acre land which is in the name of the victim, for sale. The accused, who has a house in Sudharshan colony , wanted to construct two additional floors and had been putting pressure on the victim to sell the 1.8 acres land. But the victim was reluctant to sell the property due to which, he and other family members were harassing Padmaja. The victim did not leave any suicide note.

"The victim's parents alleged that Padmaja has been harassed by the accused and on Sunday they had an argument over Girish's missing vest. It was subsequent to this development, the victim committed suicide,’’ Inspector said. In the past, the victim’s parents held discussion with Girish’s family members and paid additional dowry and 16 tolas gold ornaments.

Based on the complaint given by Padmaja's parents, Gachibowli police registered a case under 304 b(Dowry death) of IPC against Girish and three other family members. The accused is under police custody and is being questioned.

