Actress Padmaja has acted in several movies, serials and advertisement films and was allegedly living with her boyfriend in a house in Tiruvottriyur.  It is said that the house was locked from the inside for a few days and a bad smell had come out of it which caused the neighbors to alert the police.  When the door was broken Padmaja's body was found hanging on the ceiling fan and it was shifted to a government hospital for postmortem.

The people around the area have told presspersons that Padmaja had misunderstandings with her husband due to her returning late night after finishing her acting assignments.  She had separated from her husband and was living in the house with a boyfriend and the house owner was allegedly forcing her to vacate immediately.  It is suspected that a dejected Padmaja had decided to end her life by committing suicide but the cops are also on the lookout for the boyfriend who is missing to rule out any foul play.