3 min readHyderabadJul 20, 2026 05:20 AM IST
A 25-year-old software engineer, who had recently quit her job in Bengaluru, moved back to Hyderabad and started living with her mother, died after jumping into a lake in the Peerzadiguda area in the early hours of Saturday, police said. They suspect that it is a case of suicide.
According to officials, the deceased, V Tejaswini, had left what her family described as a high-paying job around six months ago after her mother, Aruna, began living separately from her husband, Eashwar Rao.
Originally from Devpalli village in Andhra Pradesh’s Vizianagaram district, the family had been living in Hyderabad for several years. While Rao later moved to Visakhapatnam, Aruna continued to live in Hyderabad. Tejaswini, who had been working for an IT company in Bengaluru, returned to Hyderabad to live with her mother.
Police said preliminary inquiries suggest Tejaswini had moved back because her mother was living alone. However, mother and daughter allegedly had frequent disagreements over where to live in Hyderabad.
“They had been looking for a house in different localities but often disagreed over it,” a Medipally police official said. “Her mother has also said that Tejaswini had been facing mental health issues, which was one of the reasons she quit her job.”
According to police, CCTV footage shows Tejaswini leaving her house in Shankarnagar at around 2.30 am on Saturday without clothes. The footage shows her briefly stopping at a neighbourhood temple, where she took a saree or cloth draped over the deity before running towards the lake. Police suspect she jumped into the water and are investigating the sequence of events.
In her statement to police, Aruna said she was locked inside her room at night, and after waking up, alerted neighbours who freed her.
Story continues below this ad
Police, along with local residents, later spotted a body floating in the lake. Fire services and HYDRAA personnel retrieved it, and it was identified as Tejaswini.
In her statement, Aruna described her daughter as a bright student who cared deeply for her parents. She said Tejaswini had been under considerable work-related stress while employed in Bengaluru and had, in recent weeks, experienced episodes of emotional distress, which she believed were linked to the family’s circumstances.
Police have registered a case and are investigating the incident.