Woman found hanging in Bengaluru flat, names boyfriend in note

Bengaluru: A 49-year-old woman was found dead in her flat at Srirampura near Jakkur, with her family alleging that continuous mental harassment by her boyfriend drove her to her death.

The deceased, Manisha Prasad, was supervising interior work at her new flat in Periwinkle Apartment.

According to a complaint filed by her uncle, Ashok Kumar, Manisha was staying with him and his wife at their house in Thanisandra for the last two months. Originally from Mumbai, she earlier worked as a writer with an FM radio station and married a Mumbai resident in 2007. However, the marriage did not last and the couple divorced in 2024.

On May 23, she is said to have left Ashok’s house around 11am after breakfast, saying she was going to her new flat. When repeated calls from her aunt around 2pm went unanswered, the family grew suspicious. Later in the evening, they went to the flat and opened it using a spare key to find Manisha hanging from the ceiling fan inside the bedroom.

Cops recovered a handwritten note from the bedroom in which Manisha allegedly blamed her lover, Harshvardhan Singh Bansal from Uttaranchal, for her death. Ashok said she was in a live-in relationship with him before moving to Bengaluru. He claimed Harshvardhan and his family were aware of their relationship and that he was harassing her regularly.

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