Top BJP Politician's Granddaughter Dies From Apparent Suicide

Born to the eldest daughter of senior BJP politician B. S. Yediyurappa, Soundarya was the eldest granddaughter in the family.
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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.
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."
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.
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