IT firm staffer ends life over ill-treatment by boyfriend

BENGALURU: An IT firm employee committed suicide as she was allegedly depressed over constant ill-treatment by her boyfriend and his refusal to return a loan of Rs 1.76 lakh. In a suicide note, she mentioned that her boyfriend was responsible for her death.

Vidyashri and Akshay were in a relationship for about a year.

Vidyashri, who was working with an IT company, ended her life by hanging at her house in Soladevanahalli police limits on July 22. On Wednesday, her death note was found in the house wherein she had named her boyfriend Akshay as the cause of her death. She even mentioned that he would abuse her and her family whenever she sought the money back and would switch off his phone.

The family then lodged a complaint following which the Soladevanahalli police summonded Akshay and questioned him. Akshay is working as a trainer at a gym in Basaveshwara Nagar.

It is said that Vidyashri and Akshay were in a relationship for the last one year. Vidyashri had also won the Miss Andhra competition some years ago.