Hyderabad: Police were looking for an Indian army major after his wife died in suspicious circumstances at her home in Hyderabad’s Bollarum military area.
News of the death of Sandhya Singh, a presenter with a local FM radio station, came to light when her relatives from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh approached Hyderabad police to report suspicions she had been murdered.
Though Sandhya Singh died a week ago neither her husband nor anybody else in Bollarum military area in Hyderabad had lodged a complaint with the police and performed her last rites.
Bollarum police have approacheddefence authorities seeking permission to conduct an inquiry and also question her husband Major Vishal Vaibhav.
However the defence authorities have expressed their inability to do so on the ground that Major Vaibhav was unwell and was undergoing treatment at a military hospital for a heart ailment.
Sandhya who was working as a radio jockey with Radio Charminar, a local FM station had last reported for work a week ago. Earlier on April 16 she had hosted a Sufi night in Banjara Hills area and on Monday came to the office for a shortwhile.
Her colleague Abdul Samad said she appeared depressed on the day. Earlier she had told her female colleague that she was fed up with her life.
Radio station staff also came to know about her suspicious death only after sister lodged a complaint with the police. Until then all efforts by the Radio staff to contact her had failed as her phone was switched off.
Her sister Ramya Singh has told the police that Sandhya’s husband Vishal Vaibhav, a major with 54th Infantry Division, Secunderabad was harassing her.
On the complaint police have booked a case of suspicious dowry death under section 304B against Major Vaibhav. When police went to his house to question him, he fled from the backdoor and got himself admitted to military hospital complaining chest pain, said Police Inspector S Maheshwar.
