Hyderabad Techie Wanted To Marry Colleague, Shows Scarf Noose On Video Call, Found Dead Hours Later

Hyderabad: A disturbing case has emerged from Hyderabad, where a woman committed suicide at her flat over a marriage dispute with her alleged boyfriend on Sunday morning. The woman, identified as 29-year-old Archana Chowdhury Malik, was a native of Uttar Pradesh and worked as a senior associate at a multinational company in Hyderabad’s Mindspace area.

The software professional was found hanging at her flat in Hyderabad on Sunday morning, hours after she allegedly threatened to end her life during a video call with a colleague over marriage.

The woman techie had been in a relationship with the colleague, who is from Uttarakhand, for four years. According to a preliminary investigation, the man was undergoing divorce proceedings.

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Made a video call, later...

According to news agency PTI, the woman made a video call to her colleague at around 2:30 AM on Sunday while he was attending a function with his mother. During the call, she allegedly showed him a scarf, or chunni, tied to a ceiling fan and threatened to end her life if he did not marry her.

Seeing this, the man reached her flat at around 5:30 AM but found the door locked from the inside. Police were alerted through Dial 112 and forcibly opened the door, where they found the woman hanging from the ceiling fan.

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Soon after the incident, the woman's body was taken for post-mortem to Osmania General Hospital.

A clues team inspected the scene, a case has been registered, and an investigation is underway. The circumstances leading to the woman’s death are being examined, and further probing is ongoing.