VJ Chitra suicide: Chennai police arrest her husband

CHENNAI: The Chennai city police have arrested TV serial actress and video jockey K Chitra’s

husband

Hemnath for abetting her suicide. Chitra ended her life in a hotel room in Nazarethpet in the early hours of on December 9.


Hemnath was produced before a magistrate court and lodged in Puzhal Central Prison on Tuesday.

Police said during questioning, Hemnath confessed to having picked up an argument with her. He had repeatedly asked her to about the scenes she had acted before arriving in the room. She had been attending shooting at EVP Film City. He suspected that she was getting closer to a few male actors. He was against her acting in intimate scenes with fellow actors.

Chitra turned angry, locked the room from inside and ended her life. Hemnath left the room and went to his car parked on the hotel premises. He returned to the room after 15 minutes. She didn’t respond when he knocked on the door repeatedly. He rushed to the hotel reception and brought a hotel employee, Ganesh, who opened the room using an alternative key to find the actress hanging from the ceiling.

The duo removed her from the noose and checked her pulse. They alerted the Nazarethpet police.

The investigators confirmed that Hemnath had been hiding from them sequence of events after Chitra arrived in the hotel after shooting.

A police officer said, “We collected the CCTV camera footage from the hotel and found Chitra arrived at the hotel around 1.30am.” The footage showed that Hemnath walking towards his car around 2.10am. However, during questioning, Hemnath refused to reveal what had happened after Chitra reached the room.

On repeated questioning, Hemnath told the investigators about his quarrel with Chitra.

Police said the “Pandian Stores” actress was engaged to Hemnath in August and the couple registered their marriage in October. Her parents Kamaraj, a retired sub-inspector of police, and Vijaya were planning to hold a grand wedding reception on February 10 next year.