Bengaluru: The wife of a software engineer committed suicide after leaving behind a note blaming her husband for her death. A day after his wife died, the husband, a software engineer was arrested in Bengaluru’s Varthur on Wednesday. In the suicide note she blamed her husband for mentally abusing and torturing her.
The police said that the husband was booked on abetment to suicide charges following a complaint filed by the woman’s family.
The police identified the couple as Mr. Nihar Ranjan Routray and Mrs. Upasana Rawat, a 34-year-old HR manager, and said that they had been married for eight years. The relationship of the couple had become strained over the last two years due to domestic issues, the police said. The couple did not have children.
According to the police, on Tuesday morning, Mrs. Rawat died by suicide after receiving a legal notice for divorce. In a note she left behind, Rawat allegedly blamed her husband’s mental abuse and torture.
After Rawat’s family filed a complaint, the Varthur police booked a case IPC Section 306 (abetment to suicide). The probe revealed that the surviving husband Nihar had recorded some videos of Upasana where she was seen fighting with her husband and abusing him. When asked, he said that he was building some evidence to prove in the court that she was abusing him,” a police officer said.
