on 7 february 2008, kunal was found hanging from the ceiling in his mumbai apartment actress lavina bhatia. the apparent suicide was challenged by his father rajendra singh who claimed that the body showed signs of suspicious bruising. bhatia was detained by police in connection with his death, but she was later released after the police could not prove a motive. the police were unable to prove that anyone was present in kunal's apartment at the time of his death and ruled out bhatia as a suspect as kunal had a black belt in karate; furthermore, kunal had attempted suicide by slashing his wrists several months earlier. at the time of his death, kunal was working on a hindi film, "yogi", which was being produced by his newly formed production company balagiri. the case was referred to cbi and prof t d dogra of all india institute of medical sciences. he examined the scene of crime along with cbi and opined in favor of suicide.