Vadodara: An insurance agent from Godhra was booked on Tuesday for abetting suicide of a 21-year-old woman colleague from Desar taluka of Vadodara district. The woman had ended life last month allegedly because the insurance agent used to molest her.
The woman, who used to work with Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India, was being harassed by the accused Dharmendrasinh Mehra, an insurance agent of LIC of India, at the workplace and outside the office too.
The woman’s brother alleged that his sister underwent harassment for five months. As she was tired of the harassment, she jumped in Kuni River, a tributary of Mahisagar river near their home in Udalpur village on September 26. Her body was found on September 28 from the check dam over the river.
“We had registered a case of accidental death initially, but as the family had made allegations against the accused, we investigated into it,” said a police official. “As evidence was found against the accused, an offence of abatement of suicide was registered,” he added.
On September 26, the family of the woman was unaware of her whereabouts so they assumed that Mehra must have abducted her. Police said that since the woman had mentioned about Mehra’s harassment, they suspected him.
Ten members of the family had gone to Mehra’s house at Gothda village in Panchmahal on the same night and had beat up his father and created a ruckus.