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An impassive man sits guard outside Lakku Homes in Bengaluru’s Malleshwaram, where 26-year-old advocate Pushpa Archana Lall was found dead under mysterious circumstances on Saturday, 24
November. On 20 November, Lall had filed a plaint of sexual misconduct and harassment against her senior, Chandra Nayak T of Jayanth Pattanshetti and Associates, a law firm on Infantry Road,
and another advocate Chetan Desai, with the Commercial Street police station. According to a representative of the law firm, Nayak, voluntarily quit his job on 30 October, right after a
meeting between him and Lall, mediated by the firm the same day. The meeting was requested by Lall to bring attention to her allegations of misconduct against Nayak. The guard refused to
answer when PG owner SA Leelavathi would return to the house. But Lall’s brother Sunil and father Tulasi had cleared her belongings from her room, on Sunday. Her father soon after returned
to their home in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands along with her remains, while her brother stayed in the city to follow up on the investigation. The two lawyers accused of sexual harassment,
Chandra Nayak T and Chetan Desai, had appeared in court and obtained bail, two days after her complaint. However, the cops have begun a twin probe. While the Vayalikaval police are
investigating the unnatural death, Commercial Street police are probing the sexual harassment complaint. Vyalikaval police have registered a case of unnatural death under Section 174 of the
CrPC which deals with suicide and extends to “circumstances raising a reasonable suspicion that some other person has committed an offence”.