Top BJP Politician's Granddaughter Dies From Apparent Suicide
15:38 GMT 28.01.2022 (Updated: 11:42 GMT 10.12.2022)
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Born to the eldest daughter of senior BJP politician B. S. Yediyurappa, Soundarya was the eldest granddaughter in the family.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) politician and ex-Indian state chief B.S. Yediyurappa’s granddaughter was found dead at her home in Karnataka state on Friday. As per the preliminary investigation, she committed suicide by hanging from a ceiling fan.
Soundarya Neeraj, a doctor by profession at the MS Ramaiah hospital of Bengaluru city, was in her early 30s.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa's granddaughter was found dead at her home in Bengaluru today. She was found dead in her flat in central Bengaluru.
— Naresh Kumar Sagar (@Nksagar) January 28, 2022
Dr Soundarya was found hanging at a pvt apartment in Bengaluru. Postmortem is going at BowringLadyCurzonHospital. pic.twitter.com/B5PeqxZN5i
According to the police, she was living with her husband, a fellow doctor, at an upscale apartment near Mount Carmel College. The couple have a six-month-old child.
She married two years ago and according to media reports she had shown “signs of post-pregnancy depression."
*🙏🕉️Former #Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa's (@BSYBJP) granddaughter was found dead at her residential apartment.*
— N.K.AGARWAL (@NKAgarwal1234) January 28, 2022
*The victim, Soundarya, is the daughter of Padmavathi, Yediyurappa's second daughter.*
*(File Photo)* pic.twitter.com/yjXb2VAAjn
Her body has been shifted to the state-run Bowring hospital for a post-mortem to ascertain the cause of death.
Media reports, quoting sources, said that Soundarya was a successful doctor who always brought smiles to her patients' faces.
A senior police official told the media that so far they have not been able to question her husband or any other family members as all of them are in a state of shock".
“Once the final rites are performed, we will start probing the case in detail,” he said.
