Mumbai: Mystery shrouds the cause behind the suicide of a senior Vodafone official here with family members alleging that 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 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 10 pm was not given any clean chit, police said.
"The post mortem report suggested it was not a case of murder. He died due to hanging and there were no external injuries.