Mumbai April 1 (IANS) Soma Banerjee mother of television actress Pratyusha Banerjee who committed suicide last year said the actress was not in a live-in relationship with her boyfriend Rahul Raj Singh.
Soma also said Rahul created emotional pressure on her daughter and killed her.
She was present at the prayer meet on her daughter s death anniversary along with her husband Shankar Banerjee actress and Pratyusha s friend and colleague Kamya Punjabi among others on Saturday.
Who is Rahul to Pratyusha? What was his relationship with my late daughter? They were not in a live-in relationship she said while interacting with the media.
After coming to Mumbai my daughter was not in a live-in relationship Rahul was staying with us. He conspired separates our daughter from us and then started staying at her place calling it a live-in relation. He conspired created pressure on my daughter and killed her.
During the prayer meet when singer Harshdeep Kaur sang one of Pratyusha s favourite songs Jo Bheji Thi Dua her mother broke down in tears.
She cried loudly and said: No one has an idea of the pain a mother goes through my daughter whom I brought back home as baby and later as a body... a dead body from hospital... how will I live my life with this memory? How? Who will call me Ma ?
Pratyusha gained fame after playing the character of Anandi in Balika Vadhu.
The actor after leaving the show went through a rough phase in her professional and personal life.
She was found hanging at her Mumbai apartment on April 1 2016 and according to the postmortem report the cause of death was asphyxia.
--IANS
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Pratyusha was not in live-in relationship with Rahul
