Bengaluru: A 40-year-old woman cab driver, V Bharathi, was found dead in her rented house in the city’s northwest suburb, police said yesterday.

"It appears to be a case of suicide, as the victim’s (V Bharathi) body was found hanging by a cloth-like rope from the ceiling of a room by her landlord on Monday night," said Sanjay Nagar police inspector Prakash. Though no suicide note was found in her house, police registered a case of unnatural death and shifted the body to a state-run hospital for autopsy to ascertain the cause of Bharathi’s death.