Actress Jiah Khan committed suicide at her Juhu residence on Monday night. She was found hanging at her flat in Sagar Sangeet Building in the posh Juhu area of northwest Mumbai around midnight. The cause of the suicide is not yet clear, police said.

Police are questioning her domestic help, security persons and neighbours to ascertain what could have triggered the extreme step.News of her death was first reported by actress Dia Mirza through a social networking site around 1.45 a.m.

Jiah's mother and sister had gone out and she was alone at the house when the incident happened, police said.

"Jiah's mother and sister found her hanging when they returned at around 11 PM," police said, adding that Jiah used her own dupatta to hang herself. Police said postmortem of the body will be conducted today and they have registered a case of accidental death.

Police are yet to record the statement of the actress' mother as she is in shock.
Jiah shot into the limelight in 2007 with her debut movie "Nishabd" in which she starred opposite Amitabh Bachchan.

She got a Filmfare Best Debutant nomination for the Ram Gopal Varma movie in which she plays a teenager besotted with a man old enough to be her father. Born and raised in London, Jiah, also known as Nafisa had shifted to India to pursue a career in acting. She worked in Aamir Khan’s ‘Ghajini’ and Akshay Kumar’s ‘Housefull’.