Kolkata, Mar 29: Piyali Mukherjee a lawyer separated from her husband in Burdwan, was found hanging from the ceiling of her ninth floor apartment in Kolkata's Rajarhat locality on on Tuesday night.
Piyali was close to a Trinamool Congress minister, who used to regularly visit her at the apartment, according to security personnel posted at the apartment complex.
Piyali had a six-year-old daughter, but had separate from her husband, who worked in a Burdwan college. They had married in 2003.
Her death was discovered by her lady friend, with whom she had returned home on Monday night. On Tuesday evening, when her friend went to the flat in the evening, she found the door locked from inside, and she did not reply to cellphone calls. She informed her relatives in Burdwan. Police broke into the flat and found her hanging from the ceiling.
Police said, they have recovered a suicide note, but Piyali's family said, police have not told them about the suicide note.
PTI adds: Police has started a probe into the mysterious death of Piyali, a 32-year-old Trinamool Congress activist.
Piyali Mukherjee, who had studied law in her home town Burdwan where she was a leader of the Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad, was staying alone in the flat, having shifted to the city over a year ago, the police said.
Piyali, who was allegedly close to a state minister, was practising at a city court for the past three/four months while her husband and six-year-old daughter were staying in Burdwan, the sources said.
The police found a suicide note at her room from which it appeared that she had been suffering from depression.
“We are investigating the case. We are waiting for the postmortem report. But from the prima face evidence it seems it is a suicide. But we are investigating all angles,” Rajeev Kumar, police commissioner, Bidhan Nagar commissionerate, said.
