HYDERABAD: A 35-year-old cameraperson working in the Telugu film industry , Mohammed Nawaz , died by suicide at Krishna Nagar in Hyderabad's Jubilee Hills on Monday, allegedly because of torture by his wife, Swetha Reddy Thada . This comes close on the heels of the suicides by Bengaluru-based techie Atul Subhash in Dec last year and TCS employee Manav Sharma in Feb this year because of similar harassment. In her police complaint, Nawaz's mother Sabera Begum said Swetha abused her son mentally and physically, demanded a large amount of cash and even threatened to call the cops if he refused to give her a share in their family-owned property.
The complainant further alleged that Swetha had hired men to beat up Nawaz and had starved him for days together. Sabera Begum claimed she last spoke to her son on Sunday, when he called up to tell her that he could not bear the torture anymore and was going to end his life. "I cannot live like this.
..my wife might kill me," were Nawaz's last words to her, his mother told police.
Based on Begum's complaint, Jubilee Hills police have registered a case and are investigating the matter..