Mumbai: Retired cop's son held for abetting woman's suicide

MUMBAI: A 23-year-old son of a retired Mumbai Police official was arrested for allegedly abetting the suicide of a woman he was in relationship with, in suburban

Jogeshwari

, police said on Tuesday.

The deceased was the daughter of a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (

BMC

) official.

She was found hanging at her residence in

Pratap Nagar

locality on Monday morning.

In a suicide note purportedly written by her, the woman had blamed Nikhil Chavan, her boyfriend, for creating problems in her life, a police official said.

Police registered an FIR under section 306 (Abetment of suicide) of the Indian Penal Code (

IPC

) and arrested the accused on Monday, he added.