Serial actress Chitra suicide case: Husband arrested

Chennai: The police probing Tamil actress K Chitra’s death case arrested her husband on Monday, December 14 night arrested for abetting her suicide.

The arrested is Hemnath. He was being interrogated since December 9 and was arrested by Nazarathpet police at around 11 pm on Monday night at the end of the sixth day of questioning.

Popular Tamil television actress, Chitra was found dead at a hotel room here early on Wednesday, December 9 and she is suspected to have died by suicide, police said.

The 29-year old actress, well known among the television audience in Tamil Nadu was seen hanging from a fan at the hotel room -using her saree like a rope- in suburban Nazarethpet when they reached the spot, police said.

After a shoot at a nearby location, K Chitra arrived at the hotel on the Bengaluru bypass and had told the man that she would be back after a bath and requested him to wait outside, police said quoting him.

Chitra became more popular among lovers of soap opera after she donned the role of ”Mullai,” in the ongoing television serial ”Pandian Stores.”