New Delhi, Jul 12 (PTI) Former chief election commissioner S Y Quraishi's wife and former election commissioner of Nepal Ila Sharma passed away in Kathmandu on Saturday at the age of 59.

She suddenly collapsed while having a conversation with a friend at her Kathmandu residence, Quraishi told PTI.

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"I was in the next room. As was her only brother visiting from Varanasi," he said.

"She had no previous history of a heart disease but was diabetic and had an acute frozen shoulder," Quraishi said.

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Sharma was the election commissioner of Nepal between 2013 and 2019.

She is survived by her husband and two daughters.

Sharma was a double LLM from the Hull University in the UK and the Kathmandu University.

Sharma and Quraishi were married for about 10 years.

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