'We are trying to establish what led the senior officer to take such an extreme step. If it was a work pressure or anything else would only be known after a couple of days,' a senior inspector said.
Mystery shrouds the cause behind the suicide of Vodafone's vice president here with family members alleging he was blackmailed and under tremendous pressure.
Chandra Murli Iyer, 47, vice president of Vodafone was found hanging from the ceiling with a rope around his neck at his residence in Trimurti Society building in suburban Santacruz on Friday, the day when he had planned to visit his family in Delhi, police said.
Iyer's friend Ankita Rastogi, a senior officer in another mobile service provider firm, who visited his house a day before the suicide and talked to him till 10pm has so far not been given any clean chit, police added.
"The post mortem report suggested it was not a case of murder. He died due to hanging and there were no external injuries. There was no struggle either and the entire room was in order though the door was ajar when he was noticed hanging," said Madhukar Choudhari, senior inspector at Santacruz police station.
Iyer's wife alleged he was blackmailed and that he was stressed tremendously, Choudhari said.
"We are trying to establish what led the senior officer to take such an extreme step. If it was a work pressure or anything else would only be known after a couple of days," he said.
"On Friday, Iyer called his wife telling her that he was not feeling good and would fly to Delhi in the evening. But later he was found hanging," Choudhari added.
Iyer's friend Rastogi, who stays in Delhi and had worked with Vodafone for a decade, had found him hanging when she visited Iyer's home, police said.
Police officers said she frequently visited Mumbai for work and would occasionally drop in to Iyer's house.
"We are still questioning Rastogi. We have not come across anything that would link Rastogi's role with Iyer's suicide," he added.
The police are also going through mobile phone records of Rastogi and Iyer.
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