Hyderabad, Sept. 21 -- A 35-year-old police constable was found dead in suspicious circumstances at his residence in Hyderabad's Malakpet area in the early hours of Monday, the police said, adding that it appeared to be a case of death by suicide.

According to the police, the body of the constable, working as a writer at Amberpet police headquarters, was found in the bedroom of his house.

A Malakpet police officer cited a preliminary investigations and said the constable made a video call to a woman around midnight and told her that he was ending his life.

The woman alerted the Chaitanyapuri police, who in turn informed their counterparts at the Malakpet police station. Acting on the information, the Malakpet police rushed to his resid...