A 40-year-old model-turned-actress committed suicide in her home in Andheri West, Mumbai on Saturday evening after slashing her neck open with a knife.
The police are suspecting that the continued lack of employment led her to take her own life. Shikha had worked in critically acclaimed Bollywood film BA Pass (2012) along with Shilpa Shukla.
The deceased, identified as Shikha Joshi, lived with a friend in a housing society in New Mhada Colony in Andheri West and had arrived in the city from Delhi two months back, as reported by The Indian Express.
“No suicide note has been recovered so far but primarily it seems to be a case of suicide,” a Mumbai Police official said.
Police said when the actress’ roommate reached the flat and knocked the door, Joshi, who was inside the flat, asked her to wait and said she will open the door in couple of minutes.
But even after a while when Joshi did not open the door, her roommate opened it with her keys and found the actress dead with a sharp knife stabbed into her throat.
Actress’ roommate then rushed her to nearby Kokilaben Ambani Hospital, where she was declared brought dead.
“From preliminary investigation, we have learnt that she was under depression due to lack of work,” the official added.
Joshi’s 19-year-old daughter, who lives in Delhi, has been informed about the incident.
Molestation Controversy
According to police, Joshi had raked up a controversy in 2011 when alleged molestation by a doctor, who had done her breast implant surgery.
Joshi had got breast implant surgery done by the accused doctor in 2006 but after five years, she found a lump in her breast and visited the doctor again, the officer said.
(With inputs from PTI)
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