Kingfisher employee’s wife ends life

October 05, 2012 02:14 am | Updated November 17, 2021 05:02 am IST - NEW DELHI:

BANGALORE : 04.10.2012: Staff of Kingfisher Airlines showing thier solidarity to the death of Susmita Chakravarti (45) at UB City  on 04, October, 2012. The wife of an employee of crisis-ridden Kingfisher airlines today allegedly committed suicide, apparently depressed over financial stress due to non-payment of salary to her husband. Susmita Chakravarti (45), the wife of Manas Chakravarti who is a ground staff in Kingfisher Airlines, was found hanging from the ceiling in her DDA flat in south-west Delhi's Manglapuri at around 1.30 pm.Photo: V Sreenivasa Murthy

BANGALORE : 04.10.2012: Staff of Kingfisher Airlines showing thier solidarity to the death of Susmita Chakravarti (45) at UB City on 04, October, 2012. The wife of an employee of crisis-ridden Kingfisher airlines today allegedly committed suicide, apparently depressed over financial stress due to non-payment of salary to her husband. Susmita Chakravarti (45), the wife of Manas Chakravarti who is a ground staff in Kingfisher Airlines, was found hanging from the ceiling in her DDA flat in south-west Delhi's Manglapuri at around 1.30 pm.Photo: V Sreenivasa Murthy

Unable to come to terms with financial hardship, the 45-year-old wife of a technician with the beleaguered Kingfisher Airlines allegedly committed suicide at her Manglapuri residence in South-West Delhi on Thursday. Sushmita, wife of Manas Chakravorty, lived in their first floor DDA flat in Pocket 13 of Manglapuri.

Her husband returned from work around 1 p.m. to check on her as she had not been responding to phone calls. He, along with a neighbour, broke open the door and found her hanging from the ceiling.

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