Husband Arrested For TV Star’s Suicide

Chennai: Tamil TV star VJ Chitra’s husband, Hemanth, was arrested here on Tuesday, days after the actress’ mother accused him of beating her daughter to death.

Police sources, however, said that based on the post-mortem report, Chitra had died by suicide and financial issues have emerged as a possible reason, NDTV reported.

Hemanth faces charges for alleged abetment to suicide, they added.

The 29-year-old actress was found dead in a hotel on the outskirts of Chennai on December 10.

Hemanth told investigators that they had checked into the hotel after Chitra’s late-night shoot last week. Later, the actress had locked herself in and he found her dead after the hotel authorities opened the room using a duplicate key.

According to police, Hemnath was angry with Chitra over an intimate scene in a TV serial. “Hemnath did not like a scene she had enacted on TV. On the day she died, he had also pushed her,” ACP Sudarshan was quoted as saying by NDTV.

The couple had got married a few months ago.

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