Student commits suicide after being raped, 3 held

Three people including a woman were arrested for their alleged involvement in the rape and blackmail of a student who later committed suicide, police said.

The victim, pursuing her graduation, had blamed the trio for her death in the suicide note that she left behind. The arrests came after the victim's father lodged an FIR, they said.

In his complaint, the father alleged that the accused woman was his daughter's friend and had secretly shared her photos with her accomplices.

The men morphed the photos using an editing software and demanded sexual favours from the victim in return for not making her obscene photos public, the complaint said.

They raped the victim on several occasions for months and drugged her as well, it alleged.

The victim's body was handed over to her family after a post-mortem examination, deputy superintendent of police Sunil Kumar said.

The suicide note has been sent to a forensic lab to check its authenticity and further investigation was on, he added.