Bengali TV and film actor Payel Chakraborty was found hanging in a hotel room in Siliguri in West Bengal last evening.She had checked into a hotel on Tuesday and was to leave for Gangtok yesterday.
The hotel staff broke into her room when she did not respond to several knocks and failed to check out.
NDTV quoted Senior Siliguri police officer Gourab Lal saying, “Prime facie, it looks like a case of suicide, but the police are not ruling out other possibilities.”
Payel was an upcoming actress and has starred in a number of television serials, web series and films. She starred in shows like “Chokher Tara Tui” and “Goenda Ginni”.
Her friends and film fraternity were shocked on hearing the news. She is survived by a young son and had recently separated from her husband.
Arun Deb, an employee at the hotel, said, “Chakraborty, after checking in, had categorically told the hotel officials that she did want to be disturbed in her room. She had locked the room from inside and did not order dinner,” NDTV quoted.
As per reports, her parents did not know that she was in Siliguri. According to a report in NDTV, “Payal told us she would be going to Ranchi. I am not sure what was she doing in Siliguri,” her father Prabir Guha said.
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