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Smrija, the wife of budding Tamil actor Siddharth Gopinath, killed herself at her residence in Chennai.Creative Commons

The wife of a budding Tamil actor reportedly committed suicide under mysterious circumstances at her house in Maduravoyal, Chennai,  on Monday evening, 3 September. Actor Siddharth Gopinath's wife Smirija reportedly ended her life by hanging from a ceiling in her room.

The investigation is on and the post-portem details yet to out. "RDO enquiry has been ordered. We don't have any details yet. Postmortem is yet to take place. We will know more in a couple of days. Since RDO enquiry is in progress, we cannot say much now," an official from the Maduravoyal police station told The News Minute.

A suicide of a woman under mysterious circumstances within seven years of her marriage will be ordered RDO enquiry. They had married in 2015. 

According to Tamil media, Smrija and her actor-husband Siddharth Gopinath had an argument after returning home. The initial reports say that her husband was asleep when she ended her life.

"The couple had gone out last night and after coming home, they had an argument over a personal issue. Looks like the argument went serious that led the woman to hung herself to a ceiling fan late in the night, while her husband was asleep in the hall. We got the information only by today morning. The investigations are on," Behindwoods quotes a cop as saying.

Siddharth Gopinath has acted in the movies like Aadhi Pinisetty-starrer Yaagavaarayinum Naa Kaakka.