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The husband of Assamese actress Bidisha Bezbaruah, who allegedly committed suicide in Gurugram, Haryana on Monday, has been booked for abetment, a police officer said on Tuesday.

“As per the complaint filed by deceased relatives, the case has been filed against her husband under IPC’s Section 306 [abetment to suicide],” Gurugram police PRO Ravinder Kumar told IANS.

He said that a case has been registered and several police teams have been probing the death of the victim, whose body has been handed over to family members after a postmortem examination.

Deputy Commissioner of Police, East, Deepak Saharan is heading the probe, the PRO added.

Bezbaruah, a 27-year-old singer-actor from Assam, was found dead inside her ninth floor Gurgaon flat.

“Bezbaruah was found hanging from a ceiling fan of her recently acquired rented apartment,” Deputy Commissioner of Police Deepak Saharan was quoted as saying by the Hindustan Times.

“Her father suspected something foul as she was not picking the phone on Monday evening. He approached the police and gave details of her local address,” he added.

Bezbaruah’s husband, Nisheeth Jha, was accused by her father, Aswini Kumar Bezbaruah, of having an extra-marital affair, the Times of India said. Earlier the same evening, Aswini said she had called him to say that she would seek a divorce. The couple got married on April 28 last year.

“She was not happy in her marriage and things turned worse in the last few months,” Aswini’s police report claimed, according to the Times of India report. “It was around 9pm on Monday when I received a call from the police that my daughter was found hanging in her flat. On the same day, she had called me around 5pm and said she wanted a divorce. I asked her to be calm, but she refused to listen and disconnected the phone call, saying `let me take my own decision’. I immediately called up her husband in Mumbai, asking him to be with her, but he flatly refused. After a few hours, we got this unfortunate news.”

Bezbaruah, who made a fleeting appearance in Jagga Jasoos, was a wellknown actress in the Assamese TV industry, where she acted in serials and was also a singer.