This Article is From Nov 29, 2011

Infosys woman manager found hanging at home

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Bangalore: An assistant manager with Infosys Ltd was found hanging in her apartment in a suburb here, police said Monday.

Smita Rao, 32, was also was found hanging Monday in her apartment in the northeast suburb of Geddelihalli.

"Smita Rao was found hanging in her flat (E4) on the third floor of Mantri Splendour apartments. She was rushed to a private hospital but was declared dead. A case of unnatural death by hanging will be registered after we get the post-mortem report from the hospital," Hennur police station inspector G. Prabhakar told reporters.

According to Columbia Asia hospital general manager Jermy D'Souza, Smita was brought to the hospital in an ambulance from the flat but could not be treated as doctors found her dead when she was wheeled into the emergency ward.

"On receiving an emergency call from Mantri apartments at Geddelihalli, we rushed an ambulance to bring the victim at the earliest. Before our doctors could attend to her, she was found dead," D'Souza told IANS.

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Smita, a former journalist, joined Infosys in June 2010 and was handling online content for the company's official website, providing corporate updates and writing business stories and features.

Infosys did not respond to calls and its officials were unavailable for comment on the incident involving one of its employees.
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