hyderabad police investigating into the death of infosys techie neelima questioned her 21yearold friend b prashant on wednesday prashant told them that he was just her friend and there was nothing more to their relationship police said prashant a former employee of infosys told the raidurgam police that they had become friends while working in the us i used to sit in the cubicle next to neelimas and being teluguspeaking people we became good friends he told police after working for about a year with infosys he moved to cognizant a month ago in her emails to prashant just before her death neelima referred to him as pandu when police quizzed about this he told them that neelima used to call him by his pet name as they were friends neelima did not have a credit card and hence used his card sometimes to make purchases in the us he told police in one of the emails sent to her husband before her death neelima purportedly mentioned about using prashants credit card and asked her husband to return certain amount which she owed him prashant also said that he and neelima had taken the same flight to hyderabad from the us on july 21 after reaching hyderabad prashant left directly for visakhapatnam and neelima went to her house in kukatpally he told police that he had come to attend his sisters marriage prashant was in mumbai on the day neelima was found dead on infosys campus police said prashant informed police that he spoke with her thrice on phone on july 31 the day she was found dead on infosys campus in one of the conversations she sounded philosophic as she told him that we will meet in the next life she called prashant again at around 930 pm from infosys campus and said that what she had said earlier was just a joke when he asked her as to why she was at the office so late in the night she told him that she had some official work neelima told him that her husband had dropped her at the office on bike police said upon recording prashants statement police said they would wait for the postmortem report before taking the next step in their investigation into the case