IDUKKI: A week after an expatriate's wife committed suicide, the family suspects the involvement of a friend's wife. The family alleges the threat from an auto driver friend's wife was the reason for the suicide. Sridevi, a native of Ayyappancoil, committed suicide on the 1st of this month. A suicide note was also found in the woman's bag.

Sridevi and her children were staying at her husband's house as her husband was working abroad. Whenever the woman came home, she used to travel in her friend Pramod's autorickshaw. Pramod's wife is also abroad. It is indicated in the suicide note that Smitha was suspicious of the relationship between the two and called her frequently and threatened her.

Relatives allege that Pramod used to borrow money from Sridevi and that she had pledged her gold before her death. No one knows where this money went. Relatives suspect that Pramod himself may have taken it. After the Sridevi comitted suicide, he went into hiding.