Woman Dies By Suicide Due To Harassment In Jagtial

A 20-year-old woman died by suicide allegedly due to repeated harassment by a man who sought to marry her, police said on Tuesday. 

The woman died by hanging at her house in Ananthara, Jagtial district of Telangana, on Monday. Based on preliminary investigation, police said the deceased Saidu Srilatha and the man Ankathi Raju from Sangampalli, also aged 20, had known each other for the past five years, as they were classmates from school. However, later she started avoiding him over some issue, the police



added.

The victim had earlier made a suicide attempt some time ago over the harassment, and family members and village elders issued a stern warning to the boy. 

The woman's parents recently sought to marry their daughter to another person, after which the man repeatedly made phone calls to her, asking why she wanted to marry another person. 

He had even called the person with whom the woman's parents were seeking a matrimonial alliance and told him not to marry her, claiming she was in love with him, police said.