What has stoked the curiosity of her colleagues is that in the 10 days she was in the city or even on Tuesday night when she arrived at the Infy campus, she did not meet any of her old friends or colleagues. Even more curious is the CCTV grab showing her entering Block 18, which colleagues said was strange as the work carried out there was completely unrelated to her project. In fact, nobody from her project works out of the Hyderabad office. “Most of her project members are either based out of US or Pune,” said a colleague. Her presence in the parking lot has been the subject of discussion from the time of her death given that she had not brought her car to the campus on that night.

On a day when the police maintained that no arrests were made in the case and nobody from Infosys was picked up for interrogation, her pictures from happier times were also floated. The pictures show a tall but frail Neelima posing with flowers in one and wearing a smart dress looking straight at the camera in another. “She was strong-willed and very spontaneous, bright and intelligent. She trained many people and was among the brightest in her team. It’s unthinkable that she could have committed suicide,” said a colleague, going on to share how Neelima was happily married to B Suresh Reddy, who she had fallen in love with much before she married him three years back. The couple was planning to leave for the US on August 17.

Also, it turns out that 27-year-old Neelima was posted at Tampa, Florida and not New Jersey as reported by the police initially. Her colleagues from Tampa expressed their shock on news sites as to what their dear friend was doing in the office premises when she was on leave. This was the second such incident reported at the multistoried parking lot of Infosys. Last year, a girl had allegedly committed suicide by jumping from the parking lot. However, in Neelima’s case the police have maintained that it’s a suspicious death even as doctors who performed the postmortem said it was homicide. A mail floated by Infosys on Friday asked staffers to refrain from speculating on the cause of death.

It also came to light on Friday that Infosys had tried to reach Neelima’s family soon after her body was found. The family had alleged that they were informed about the her death hours after the incident. The list of calls made from the Infosys office to the family soon after Neelima’s body was found was released on Friday. The staff even left a message for her cousin on Facebook. They could finally reach her husband at 2.55 am followed by her mother 3.01 am.