Hyderabad, August 10: The mystery over Infosys techie B Neelima's death is likely to continue for another week as her viscera samples reached Andhra Pradesh Forensic Science Laboratory (APFSL) only on Wednesday. However, after a week-long probe into the mysterious death, police suspect it to be an act of suicide due to marital problems.
Police are waiting for the post-mortem and forensic reports to arrive at a conclusion on Neelima's death. As a part of the probe, the investigating officials have so far verified the call data record of Neelima and checked the SMSs and e-mails she had sent or received from various people.
In the e-mail sent to her husband Suresh Reddy just before her death, Neelima purportedly stated that they were a mismatch. "After the scrutiny of e-mails and questioning her husband, we suspect that Neelima may have ended her life due to marital problems," an officer, who is part of the probe, said.
Police have also discovered that Neelima had given about Rs 25 lakh to Suresh Reddy in the last couple of years. "We got to know that she borrowed some money from colleagues in the US to help her husband launch his own business. However, Suresh seems to have not used the money properly and lost most of it," the official said.
Neelima was a distant relative of Suresh, a BCA graduate, and fell in love with him when she arrived in Hyderabad to do her engineering course. They got married two-and-half years ago and a year ago she moved to the US to work for Infosys there. After Neelima left for US, Suresh followed her, but returned to India after staying there for a fortnight.
It was during this period that Neelima became really unhappy with the behaviour of her husband, and started feeling that she had married the wrong person. Even after coming to the city, Neelima decided to stay with her mother at KPHB.
On July 31, Neelima left her house in the night as Suresh was forcing her to choose between either going to his house in Kukatpally or letting him come to her KPHB house. It appears that to avoid meeting her husband, Neelima went to Infosys office and then the mysterious death occurred there, another officer said.
Even though Neelima had expressed slight dissatisfaction about her marital life in her emails, she did not write a suicide note nor did she mention anything against any person, including her husband.
In his statement before police, Neelima's friend Prashant said that she told him that Suresh dropped her at Infosys office on July 31. But it was not true as police found out that she came there in order to avoid meeting her husband, for reasons yet to be known.
Police cracked Neelima's email and came to know that she had sent an email to her husband just before her death. "Your way of thinking is different from mine. I am paining you by being quiet. I am unable to adjust. I always wanted to live my life my own way. I like individuality and freedom. Your thoughts are entirely different. I am not trying to fault you. Mana Iddariki set avadu ra...I am very sorry," she said in her mail.
Police said that Neelima had also sent an SMS to Suresh informing him that she was going to end her life. "However, when we questioned Suresh about the SMS, he said that he did not see the SMS. But, the reality is that he had deleted the SMS from his phone," the officer said.
Police are maintaining a wait-and-watch policy till they get the post-mortem and forensic reports. The viscera samples reached APFSL only on Wednesday and with three holidays in a row, the lab authorities said it might take a week to give the report.
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