A 36-year-old bank official, a mother of one, was found hanging from a ceiling fan in her apartment on the second floor of a three-storey building in Garfa’s Gitanjali Park off Jadavpur in south Kolkata on Sunday evening.
Police said a purported suicide note found in the apartment mentioned that the woman was upset because she was not being allowed to meet her seven-year-old son from her first marriage who lives with his father in Bangalore.
“The suicide note mentions that the victim was under pressure for not being allowed to meet her son, the woman’s only child,” said an officer of Garfa police station.
The woman, who worked at a private bank in Salt Lake, was found hanging in her room on Sunday evening. She was taken to MR Bangur Hospital, where she was declared dead.
A senior police officer said they were talking to the woman’s second husband to ascertain the exact sequence of events leading to her death.
“We have started a case under sections for abetment to suicide. The woman’s husband has been detained for questioning,” said the officer on Monday evening.
Several incidents of women committing suicide have been reported in Kolkata in the last few weeks. In the majority of the cases, the police said, the suicides were related to professional hazards and the fear of unemployment.
Assault over ‘contract’
Anirban Saha, who runs a plywood shop on Beleghata Main Road in east-central Kolkata, was allegedly beaten up by a group of men led by a local leader on Monday afternoon after he allegedly gave the contract of repairing his shop to a contractor of his choice, Saha has reported to police.
Saha has alleged that the leader and his men attacked him with bamboo sticks and showed him a gun threatening to kill him.
The trader has been admitted to hospital, the police said.