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.