The Kandivli police have arrested a 25-year-old woman for allegedly mentally harassing her fiance and driving him to suicide. The complaint was filed in July by 58-year-old Lakshman Kokare after his son Ankit Kokare hanged himself at their home in Charkop.

Sources from Charkop police station said Ankit was an IT graduate and had been working for a private company for the past four years. In 2019, Ankit’s father had found out that his son was in love with a relative’s daughter, Pragati Jore. However, he didn’t approve of the relationship because he found her too stubborn. Lakshman had adopted Ankit from an ashram in Andheri West after he and his wife could not have their own biological children. Lakshman had asked Ankit to stay away from Jore. This enraged Jore and she allegedly began torturing Ankit over phone and WhatsApp, threatening to file a rape case against him if he backed out of marrying her.