'Told her not to harass him': Ex-YouTuber hangs self at Hyderabad home; diary mentions 'unrequited love' for techie

HYDERABAD: A 20-year-old undergraduate student, who had earlier worked for a YouTube channel to make social media content, died by suicide at her rented flat in Manikonda due to alleged love failure on Monday.

According to Raidurgam police, the deceased, Bonu Komali, a native of Gajuwaka in Visakhapatnam, was pursuing BSc first year at a private college in Maisammaguda. For the past 11 months, she was staying at a flat in LIG Chitrapuri Colony, Manikonda.


Police said Komali sent a text message to her mother B Satya Varalakshmi at 1.34am on Feb 23 stating, "I love you mummy so much. Jagratha. Thammudini baaga chusuko (Take care of younger brother)." The mother, employed as a babysitter in Kuwait, tried calling repeatedly, but Komali's phone was switched off. She then contacted Komali's friend Manasa and asked her to check on her.

Manasa went to the apartment around 3pm and found the door latched from inside. When repeated knocks drew no response, she alerted neighbours and dialled police.

"Our team broke the door latch and found her hanging from the ceiling fan," Raidurgam inspector Ch Venkanna said. In her complaint to police, Varalakshmi said Komali had attempted suicide about six months ago too and at that time she came to know that she had been in love with a 27-year-old software employee for three years.

Investigators recovered a diary in which Komali detailed her feelings, describing three years of unrequited affection. "Even a day before the suicide, she called him to her flat and expressed her love but he told her he was not interested. He even messaged her recently not to harass him," the inspector said.