A nine-month pregnant woman, wife of a software-professional in Pallikaranai, hanged herself at home on Friday. Her family has registered a complaint against the techie for abetting the suicide by constant quarrels and physical abuse.

Police told Deccan Chronicle that Mary Jesse, the expectant mother, who was married to Stephen, was working in a private medical college in Pallikaranai. After multiple attempts to reach her, Stephen rushed home to find his wife hanging from the ceiling of the bedroom. She was taken to Chromepet Government Hospital for the post-mortem.

The woman’s father John has lodged a complaint stating that his son-in-law had developed an inferiority complex about his looks, which affected the marriage. “He drove my daughter to commit suicide,” John alleged