Guwahati woman found dead in rented flat, insurance company senior officer held: Police

Guwahati police have arrested a senior officer of a private insurance company on charges of abetment of suicide after a 29-year-old woman employee was found dead in her rented apartment in the city’s Hengrabari area.

The woman was from Guwahati and was working for an insurance company.

“On Tuesday we received a call from the apartment’s owner that there was no response from the woman and a foul stench was coming from inside. When we reached, we found the woman’s body hanging from a ceiling fan inside,” investigating officer at the Dispur police station Hiranya Phukon said.

A suicide note allegedly accused the officer, identified as Biswanath Das, of subjecting her to mental and physical torture, police said on Wednesday. Das is the state head of the same company the woman was working for.

“Following the recovery of the note, Das was detained on Tuesday and arrested on Wednesday after questioning. We are conducting his interrogation to know more about the reasons leading to the death. The body has been sent for post-mortem and its report is awaited,” Phukon said.

He said that a case of abetment of suicide had been lodged against Das, a resident of Purulia in West Bengal.

“She was supposed to come home on Sunday. But she didn’t and there was no response from her phone. We called her office on Tuesday and they later found her body inside. She is not someone to take her own life. We suspect foul play,” said a female relative of the woman, requesting anonymity.