A 24-year-old woman was found hanging in her rented accommodation in Jadavpur on Sunday.

Police identified her as Bithi Mondal. Preliminary investigation suggested she had committed suicide, the police said.

Mondal, who hailed from Joynagar in South 24-Parganas, did some modelling jobs and had enrolled in an air-hostess training course at a private academy, the police said.

“She worked with a couple of event management companies. She was depressed as her work was not going well because of the pandemic,” an officer of Jadavpur police station quoted Mondal’s sister as saying.

No suicide note has been found, the officer said.

Mondal used to stay in a rented flat in Samajhgarh Park. “She was found hanging from the ceiling fan with a dupatta around 4pm on Sunday. The door was bolted from inside. She was declared dead at Baghajatin State General Hospital,” the officer said.

An officer said investigations did not reveal any foul play. “No complaint has been received from anyone so far. A post-mortem will be conducted to ascertain the actual cause of her death.”

The police have started a case of unnatural death.

The pandemic has crippled livelihoods. Several companies have stopped spending on publicity. As a result, event management companies are hardly getting contracts.

“Many struggling models and actors from districts share rented apartments in Calcutta. For starters, modelling is a low-paying job. The pandemic has only made things worse,” the owner of a Calcutta-based event management firm said. “Television shooting remained suspended for a long time. Many struggling models have returned home because they are unable to pay rents. Many have returned to Calcutta from other cities.”