VIJAYAWADA: Kankipadu police said they have cracked the mystery behind the suicide of news anchor Mattapalli Tejaswi after finding a suicide note from her residence on Tuesday.
In the suicide note, Tejaswi accused her husband Pawan Kumar of cheating as he had an extra-marital affair. She also wrote that Kumar’s parents were supporting him despite her proving his relationship with the other woman. “I trusted him and gave him time to change his behaviour. He cheated on me and I did not even get support from his family,” Tejaswi wrote in the note and requested her parents to take custody of her three-year-old daughter.
Kankipadu police said the case registered against the incident was altered to sections 498 A (domestic violence) and 306 (abetment of suicide) of IPC. The police had taken Kumar under custody on Tuesday and produced him before court on Wednesday. He was also sent on two weeks of judicial remand. “Earlier, the case was registered under CrPC of 174 (suspicious death). After we found suicide note, we altered the sections and took Pawan and his family members into custody. Pawan was sent to judicial custody,” said inspector Sridhar Kumar.
The deceased, Mattipalli Tejaswi (25), earlier worked as an anchor in a local vernacular news channel and was married to Kumar for five years. Kumar works for a finance company in Vayyuru and was away on a business trip when the incident occurred. The couple resided at MBMR colony in Eedupugallu village, along with Kumar’s parents and their three-year-old daughter.
Tejaswi committed suicide on Sunday in her house after reportedly having an verbal confrontation with her mother-in-law the previous night.