Kolkata, July 18, 2022 (PPI-OT): A 21-year-old model was found hanging in her rented flat in Kolkata city of India’s West Bengal state. The model, identified as Puja Sarkar, was a first year student in Gobardanga College in North 24 Parganas district and lived in a rented flat in Bansdroni area of south Kolkata.

As per the preliminary investigation, the woman along with a female friend had gone to a restaurant and after they returned, Sarkar had received a phone call around midnight, following which she ran to her room and shut the door, a police officer said.

When her friend’s repeated requests to open the door fell on deaf ears, she informed the police, who broke open the door to find Sarkar hanging from the ceiling of her room, he said, adding she was taken to a hospital where doctors declared her dead. Her friend, who is being questioned, claimed that Sarkar’s boyfriend had called her before her death but this can be confirmed only after a thorough investigation, he said.

This is third such incident in the eastern metropolis in three months, police said. Two models had died by hanging in the third week of May. Bidisha De Majumder was found hanging in her flat in Dumdum on May 24, while her friend and colleague in the industry, Manjusha Niyogi, was also found hanging in her Patuli residence on May 27.

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