Television actor Pratyusha Banerjee who rose to fame with popular serial Balika Vadhu was on Friday found dead at her residence. It is suspected that she committed suicide, says Mumbai police.

Her body has been taken to city's Kokilaben Hospital.

The Crime branch officials had reached the spot.

However no suicide note has been recovered as yet. As per her close friend Ajaz Khan she was a strong girl, and cannot commit suicide.

Actor's boyfriend Rahul Singh informed the police. The incident took place around 5pm.

According to reports, Pratyusha was going through a rough phase in her relationship. However, the reasons for the suicide has not been revealed yet.

Pratyusha was recently seen in reality show Power Couple with her boyfriend Rahul Raj Singh and alone in Big Boss Season 7.

Pratyusha gathered a lot of applause for her role as 'Anandi' in TV serial Balika Vadhu.