Peddapuri Ramakrishna Soumya Commit Suicide

Peddapuri Ramakrishna, a 30-year-old software professional committed suicide along with his wife Soumya (23) by consuming pesticide at their rented flat in Chandanagar near BHEL in Hyderabad. Police sources said the couple may have killed themselves on Tuesday night.

The Police were informed by the house owner after the latter got suspicious as the main door of the their house remained closed for the whole of Wednesday. Neighbors reported that the couple was last seen on Tuesday evening.

Acting on the house owner's report, police opened the doors of the house on Wednesday evening and found the techie and his wife lying dead on a bed. According to eye-witnesses, the bedroom was bolted from inside and two glasses and a bottle of pesticide, were found beside the bed.

Ramakrishna was to join Satyam Computer Services at Bangalore this month and then fly to Canada for an onsite assignment. Son of a temple priest and a native of Edida in East Godavari, he was all set to take up his new job after a two-year stint at Infotech Enterprises. The couple also left a 10-page suicide note detailing the reasons for their actions.

"He (Ramakrishna) mentioned that there was no understanding between them (the couple). He said he was committing suicide as he did not want to trouble his parents by forever fighting with his wife," Chandanagar inspector Tamarkanth Reddy said, quoting the suicide note.