NEW DELHI/ UDIPI: Karnataka BJP MLA B Raghupathy Bhat's wife Padmapriya, who has been missing for the last five days, was found dead in an apartment in a south west Delhi locality on Sunday in a suspected case of suicide, a senior Delhi Police official said.
      
The body of 33-year-old Padmapriya was found hanging from the ceiling of a room in 'Sama' apartment in Sector 10, Dwarka early this morning, a senior Delhi Police official said.
    
"It appears to be a case of suicide", he said.
    
A senior Karnataka police official in Udupi said the legislator's wife committed suicide at the apartment in Delhi on Saturday.
   
The Karnataka police had set up five special teams to trace Padmapriya who had gone missing since June 10.