Telangana Sub-Inspector Found Dead Days After Wife’s Reported Suicide

Overview

• Karimnagar two-town sub-inspector Chandrasekhar was reported to have died by hanging at his in-laws’ home in Seethampeta after arriving for post-death rituals for his wife.
• Divya, 32, had died earlier in Hyderabad after what police described as a suicide attempt involving oleander seeds prompted by severe, persistent stomach pain.
• Jammikunta police registered a case and shifted the sub-inspector’s body to the government hospital mortuary as further inquiries proceed.
• Some relatives had alleged foul play at Divya’s funeral and said the sub-inspector was briefly confined, a claim her father and other family members denied.
• The couple’s deaths, occurring four days apart, leave their two sons without parents.