Varanasi: Bhojpuri actress Akanksha Dubey committed suicide at a hotel in Sarnath police station area, police said on Sunday.
Her body was found hanging with a cloth from a ceiling fan on Sunday morning at Somendra hotel in Sarnath area, hotel staff informed police after which police took the body under custody and began its investigation.
Born in 1996 at her native place of Parisipur under Chauri police station of Bhadohi district. She shifted with her parents to Mumbai at the age of three.
She came to stay in the Somendra hotel on Saturday night.
ACP Sarnath took her mobile phone and other items under custody, and her call details were also being checked. Till now no suicide note was found in her room. Police was trying to find out the reason of her suicide.
She started her career with tik tok and Instagram while uploading her short videos of dance and acting. She began to have a huge fan following on the social media platform. She had worked in Bhojpuri films 'Vero ke veer' and "Kasam Paida karne wale 2".She also had shooted in many bhojpuri songs.
Her family members have been informed and her body has been kept for postmortem, police said. (UNI)