Popular Kannada film and television actor, Shobhitha Shivanna, was found dead under suspicious circumstances at a flat in Gachibowli on Sunday.

Shobhitha Shivanna who was staying at a flat in Gachibowli was found hanging to the ceiling in the house by the police who had reached the spot on information.

The police shifted the body for post-mortem examination to Osmania Hospital mortuary. A case is being registered. The police suspect, the actor might have committed suicide.

Shobhitha, who hailed from Sakleshpur in Karnataka’s Hassan district, was married and had been residing in Hyderabad for the past two years.