Chennai: A nine-month pregnant woman, wife of a software-professional in Pallikaranai, hanged herself at home on Friday. Her family has preferred a complaint against the techie for abetting the suicide by constant quarrels and physical abuse.
Police said Mary Jesse, the expectant mother, who was married to Stephen 18 months ago, was working in a private medical college in Pallikaranai. She didn’t go to college on Friday. Her husband who left for office called her on the mobile phone twice, but she failed to answer his calls. Stephen called his neighbour living in the same apartment to check his house. They informed him that the house was locked from inside and she was not responding after repeated knocks. Stephen rushed home to find his wife hanging from the ceiling of the bedroom.
The woman was moved to Chromepet Government Hospital for post-mortem. Meanwhile, the woman’s father John from Vridhachalam has lodged a complaint stating that his son-in-law had developed an inferiority complex about his looks, which affected the marriage. “He drove my daugher to commit suicide,” John alleged. Meanwhile, Tambaram RDO inquired Stephen. The body of the deceased was handed over to the family after post-mortem.
