- By Nidhi Giri
- Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:44 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
A 26-year-old software professional from Bihar was found dead in her apartment in Hyderabad’s Miyapur locality, under Cyberabad limits. Police suspect it to be a suicide case. As per police, the woman had allegedly been facing harassment from her husband over demands for additional dowry.
The woman has been identified as Ishita Yadav. According to an NDTV report, police was informed about the alleged suicide by Ishita’s husband Neeraj Bhansal after he found her body hanging from the ceiling fan at her apartment on Wednesday evening.
Police said the couple first connected online in 2020. Ishita, a native of Bihar, and Neeraj, who hails from Madhya Pradesh, continued their relationship for about five years before tying the knot on February 20, 2026 in Patna. Following the wedding, they moved to Hyderabad, where both were employed in the IT industry.
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Ishita’s parents claimed that tensions in the marriage began to escalate when Neeraj allegedly started demanding more dowry. They further alleged that he pressured Ishita to persuade her family to put money into a startup venture he had recently set up.
After a complaint lodged by Ishita’s parents, Miyapur police filed an FIR and began an investigation into the incident. Her body has been sent to Gandhi Hospital for a postmortem. Meanwhile, her husband has been detained for questioning, and officials confirmed that the investigation is still in progress.
In another news, a couple in Benglauru died by suicide within minutes of each other at their apartment in the city's Kothanur area. The police recovered a death note from the house. The letter, reportedly written by Chander Reddy (32), read that the man was suffering from anxiety after he lost his job in the US.
Reddy previously worked in the US, where he had a CTC of Rs 80 lakh. The man had purchased a small house in America and bought another for his family in Telangana. However, Reddy lost his job due to AI and became depressed.
His condition deteriorated when he failed to achieve another job. Although his family supported him, his anxiety kept on increasing. According to the police, the couple had moved to Bengaluru around eight months ago after Shaziya secured a job with a multinational company, IBM. Reddy had been searching for a job since he arrived in India but was unable to find one.
Their marriage was known to Reddy's familu, but not to Shaziya's family. In the initial days, they used to live in Hyderabad; however, the couple had to move out from there as they had to keep their marriage secret. Following this, they moved to Bengaluru and started staying in an apartment complex on Thanisandra Main Road.
Bhanu Chander Reddy Kunta (32), a software engineer from Siddipet district in Telangana, allegedly died by suicide by hanging himself inside a room of their apartment on Monday. Shortly after discovering her husband's body, Shaziya allegedly jumped from the 17th floor of the same residential complex, leading to her death, the NDTV report added.
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