Bangalore, November 28: An assistant manager with Infosys Ltd was found hanging in her apartment in a suburb here, police said Monday.
Smita Rao, 32, was found hanging Monday in her apartment in the northeast suburb of Geddelihalli. Rao, a former journalist, leaves behind her husband Rohit.
"Smita Rao was found hanging in her flat (E4) on the third floor of Mantri Splendour apartments. She was rushed to a private hospital but was declared dead. A case of unnatural death by hanging will be registered after we get the post-mortem report from the hospital," Hennur police station inspector G. Prabhakar told reporters.
According to Columbia Asia hospital general manager Jermy D’Souza, Smita was brought to the hospital in an ambulance from the flat but could not be treated as doctors found her dead when she was wheeled into the emergency ward.
“On receiving an emergency call from Mantri apartments at Geddelihalli, we rushed an ambulance to bring the victim at the earliest. Before our doctors could attend to her, she was found dead,” D’Souza said.
Smita, who joined Infosys in June 2010 was handling online content for the company’s official website, providing corporate updates and writing business stories and features.
Infosys did not respond to calls and its officials were unavailable for comment on the incident involving one of its employees.
Before shifting to the corporate world, Smita was deputy city editor at Bangalore Mirror, a popular tabloid in this tech hub, from July 2007 to September 2008 and a senior correspondent with The Times of India, Bangalore edition, from February 2004 to April 2007.
Prior to joining Infosys, she went to Milan, Italy, on a teaching fellowship for 10 months from October 2008 to July 2009.
In between, she worked as a television reporter with News 9, an English channel of the TV9 group.
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