One held in Pratap Nagar suicide case

Jaipur: A person identified as

Shankar Saini

(29) was arrested in connection with the

suicide

of a woman who jumped off the second floor of a hotel in

Pratap Nagar

.

Saini had forced the woman into prostitution and has been booked for abetment to suicide,

police

said.

Police said Saini met the woman around three years ago and even had a child 5 months ago. The accused was arrested on the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday (October 8). One woman identified as Hemaraj Meena has been detained for questioning.

“Following the investigation, it has come to our knowledge that the person was not her husband. We came to know that he got the woman indulged into prostitution," said Rahul Jain, deputy commissioner of police (

DCP

), Jaipur (East). tnn