India, June 11 -- A Jalandhar-based ophthalmologist was booked after his wife, a 37-year-old medical officer posted at a government hospital in Kapurthala, died by suicide, police said on Thursday.

The victim was found dead under mysterious circumstances in her rented accommodation on Wednesday. On the complaint of her father, a resident of Jalalabad in Fazilka district, a case was registered against her estranged husband under Section 108 (abetment of suicide) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

The husband runs an eye clinic on the Jalandhar-Kapurthala road.

The matter came to light when the victim failed to respond to repeated phone calls and doorbells by her house help. Neighbours alerted the police, who discovered her unconscious on t...