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WOMAN FOUND HANGING IN LAKE TOWN HIGHRISE 

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BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Calcutta Published 06.12.00, 12:00 AM
Calcutta, Dec. 6 :    Calcutta, Dec. 6:  Shampa Chakraborty, 32, was found dead in a flat of Neelachal Apartments, in the Sreebhumi area of Lake Town, on Wednesday morning. She was found hanging from the ceiling with her sari knotted round her neck. The owner of the flat, Samiran Roy, editor of the newspaper Tripura Darpan, informed the police about the incident at around 6 am. The police detained Roy for interrogation. He was being questioned till late in the night. Officer-in-charge of Lake Town police station Sambhu Roy said that a case of 'unnatural death' has been registered and the body sent for post-mortem. 'We are not suspecting any foul play at this moment,' said Roy. Shampa was a divorcee from Belonia, in Tripura, who earlier worked with Tripura Darpan. She quit a year ago, shifted to Calcutta and took up a job as a computer operator in the Jadavpur area. She lived as a paying guest in Garfa. 'On Tuesday evening, Shampa had gone to Roy's second-floor flat at Neelachal. He told us that Shampa could not return to Garfa as it got late and the gates of her house shut at 9 pm. So, she spent the night in his flat,' an investigating officer said. The police are, however, not sure why Shampa had stayed on till so late, knowing that she would not be allowed to enter the place where she lived as a paying guest after 9 pm. Neelachal is among the many multi-storeyed buildings on and around VIP Road. Sreebhumi has witnessed a construction boom over the past seven-eight years. As news of the alleged suicide spread, local residents gathered in front of Neelachal before the police arrived to take away the body. Independent councillor of South Dum Dum Sujit Bose visited the flat after the police arrived. 'I spoke to Samiran Roy's neighbours, but they could not reveal anything significant about him. As he was Tripura-based, the flat used to be frequented by people from Tripura, who used it as a guest-house of sorts,' Bose said. He added that the incident had sent shock waves through the area, as the death was 'clearly unnatural'. Snatchers held: Officers of Bowbazar thana    
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