Bangalore, March 19: A 29-year-old homemaker was found hanging from the ceiling fan of her house in Kumaraswamy Layout on Saturday night.
Though police booked a case of suicide, they are now looking into murder allegations made by the victim's brother. Lalitha was married to Ramakrishna for five years and the couple had a four-yearold daughter. Ramakrishna runs a bakery in Shastrynagar.
The woman allegedly hanged herself at 8pm in her house on II Main in Kumaraswamy Layout . Her mother-in-law told police that Lalitha was in the house when she had gone to the ground floor.Ramakrishna had gone out for a walk with his daughter.
When she returned, the mother-in-law saw Lalitha hanging from the fan in the bedroom. The victim didn't leave behind any suicide note and police registered a case of unnatural death.
On Sunday morning, Lalitha's brother, Sridhar Bhatt, filed a complaint with Kumaraswamy Layout police, saying his sister was a victim of domestic violence.
He alleged that Lalitha's inlaws had beaten her up and tied her to the fan. Police said they are awaiting the postmortem report and will then proceed with investigation.
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