The medical superintendent of ESI Hospital, Indiranagar committed suicide by injecting herself with excessive anaesthetic drugs.

Police said Dr Radhika M G (52) came to the hospital around 11 am on Wednesday. Instead of going to her chamber on the ground floor, she went to her old cabin (pathology department) on the second floor.

The next day, she was found dead in her room.

A suicide note recovered from the spot said, “No one is responsible for my act.” A few empty vials, a nylon rope and some books pertaining to suicides were found next to the body.

The security guards at the entrance - Anand, Sree Kumar and Manjnath - said: “Dr Radhika travels in a car, but that day she came in an autorickshaw and was carrying only a vanity bag.

When Anand was about to accompany her, she said, ‘I'm not going on rounds; just relax’.”

Missing complaint
Police said when Radhika did not return home, her husband, Ramakrishna, an executive engineer in the irrigation department in Gulbarga, who was here on a holiday, lodged a missing complaint at Madiwala police station.

On Thursday morning, he went to the hospital in search of his wife. On seeing her cabin locked from inside, he smelt something fishy and with help from laboratory attendant Chandrashekar, broke open the door only to see her lying on the bed. Immediately, they alerted Indiranagar police. Dr Radhika's attendant, Susheelamma, said: “I last saw her in her cabin on Tuesday. She was due for a promotion and she shared her happiness with me.”Politics in profession and promotion may have led Dr Radhika to take this step, say some staff members.  “Radhika was blessed with a good family and daughter was married,” said her friends.