A 36-year-old man committed suicide along with his 11-year-old daughter over alleged harassment by a police officer in Asangaon on Tuesday evening. Vikas Kedare had been charged with abetting his wife’s suicide. In his suicide note, he has blamed an assistant sub-inspector for torturing him for money, first to not register an abetment case against him (Kedare) and then to discharge him from it. His mother and a friend have also blamed the cop.

Kedare stayed in Asangaon with his wife Monali, daughter Aarya, and 65-year-old mother, Pushpalata. He was a marketing executive in a private firm and his wife also had a job in a private firm. On August 15, 2021, Monali consumed poison, and was declared dead before admission at a hospital. After a complaint from her relatives, Kedare and his mother were jailed for abetting suicide. Kedare spent 4 months in prison from December 2021 while his mother was jailed for two months.