Hyderabad: A 40-year-old woman from Vijayawada who was staying alone in a penthouse room above a women’s hostel in Madhura Nagar was found dead in the bathroom of the hostel. The decomposed body of the victim was retrieved on Wednesday night and shifted for autopsy.The operator of Bharghavi Deluxe Ladies Hostel in Madhura Nagar, M Siva Rama Krishna, approached the police stating that about nine months ago he took a six-floor building in Madhura Nagar on lease from its owner, Chandra Sekhar. On the sixth floor, there are three portions in the penthouses, and one of them was retained by the building owner, and a woman, Haritha (40), a mehendi artist, was staying alone in it.At around 5 pm on Wednesday, the building owner called him and informed him that Haritha, who did not come out of the room for two days, was found lying dead in the bathroom. Immediately, Krishna accompanied the building owner and found Haritha’s decomposed body on the floor. “We called police and ambulance,” the complainant said.Madhura Nagar SI G Shiva Shankar said, “The victim was staying alone and she was suffering from ill health. No one expressed any suspicion about her death. Viscera was preserved during the postmortem for FSL analysis and the preliminary opinion of the forensic experts was that liver failure could be the cause of death.” A case was registered under Section 194 of BNSS.
