Assamese actress Noor Malabika Das allegedly commited suicide by hanging from a ceiling fan at her rental flat in Oshiwara area of city, official sources said here on Monday.
Hailing from Assam, the Mumbai-born Malabika (31) had earlier worked as a stewardess with Qatar Airways for several years before switching careers to become an actress.
Police said that following complaints of a foul odour emanating from her home in Oshiwara on Saturday, a team rushed to investigate, broke open the door and found her partly mutilated and decomposing body.
She had allegedly ended her life by hanging some time on Thursday (June six), but it was only after the neighbours’ complained of bad smell that the matter came to light.
Police have recovered and seized her mobile phones, some diaries, medicines and other personal effects from the rental flat and registered an accidental death report.
Later, they shifted her body for an autopsy which was conducted at the BMC’s Siddharth Hospital in Goregaon, the details of which are not yet known.
Thereafter, her mortal remains were handed over to one of her friends and professional colleagues, A N Pathak, who organised her last rites, through an NGO, which were performed on Sunday.
As per some reports, Malabika was reported to be in a state of depression while her parents, who had visited her last month, left for Assam last week, and could not attend her funeral.
Malabika, who has acted in several films / shows/ web series like “The Trial”, “Teekhi Chutney”, “Dekhi Undekhi”, “Charamsukh”, etc.(UNI)
