Prominent journalist and Telugu news anchor Swetcha Votarkar (40) committed suicide at her residence in Chikkadapalli of Hyderabad on Friday night. According to the police, she resorted to this extreme step at her house in Jawaharnagar at around 10:30 pm on Friday night. Police found that she had hanged herself with a fan and died.
Police reached the spot as soon as they received the information. She divorced her husband five years ago and maintaining `live in relationship’ with Poorna Chandra Nayak. But, there have been differences between Swetcha and Nayak, for some time. The anchor recently told her parents that she cannot be with him.
It is reported that Poorna Chandra promised to marry her, but delayed when she insisted on it. There are doubts about whether Swetcha committed suicide in this regard. The police, who registered a case of suspicious death on the complaint of her parents, have started an investigation. The body was seized and sent to Gandhi Hospital for postmortem.
Swetcha’s parents live in Ramnagar. Her father Shankar worked as the PDSU state president in the joint AP. Mother Sridevi Chaitanya is working in the Mahila Samakhya. She has elected as a member of the Executive Committee (EC) in the recently held Journalist Housing Society elections.
Fellow journalists are expressing deep sorrow over the sudden death of Swetcha, who made a special mark for herself as an anchor. BRS chief KCR expressed condolences over the death of Telangana movement journalist Swetcha Votarkar. The death of Swetcha, who was a socially conscious poet and journalist, was tragic, he said.
He hailed that her parents,Shankar and Sridevi, actively participated in the Telangana movement, and KCR expressed his deepest condolences to those who are grieving the loss of their child. BRS Working President KTR expressed deep condolences on the untimely death of senior woman journalist and TV anchor Swetcha. He said that she was a courageous questioning journalist, a committed writer, a Telangana advocate with immense love for Telangana.