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Sonu Bhalotiya, a resident of a village in Rajasthan’s Jhunjhunu district, was apprehended from the Meerut Cantonment space. He was on the run after listening to concerning the incident, they mentioned.
The accused was declared a proclaimed offender and a money reward of Rs 20,000 was introduced on his arrest within the abetment to suicide case. He was steadily altering his tackle to evade arrest, police mentioned.
Bhalotiya used to work on the military’s provide company in Bengaluru and remained absent with out go away from responsibility after the incident, police mentioned. He was additionally conscious {that a} warrant for his arrest had been issued on the path of a court docket, a senior police official mentioned.
The constable hanged herself on August 3, 2021, at her home in southwest Delhi’s Palam village following which a grievance was filed by her sister alleging that she had died by suicide due to harassment by Bhalotiya, they mentioned.
In her grievance, she mentioned that Bhalotiya had met her sister in 2020, police mentioned.
He befriended the sufferer by telling her that he resided in a village neighbouring hers. Later, he additionally made her consider that he was single, the complainant mentioned, in keeping with police. The constable additionally belonged to Rajasthan.
Bhalotiya took her e-mail ID’s password and extracted contact particulars, photographs and movies, they mentioned.
In 2021, the sufferer informed her sister about Bhalotiya and his actions, and although she blocked his mobile-phone quantity, he contacted her utilizing completely different numbers, police mentioned.
Particular Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Singh Yadav mentioned after the sufferer’s marriage was mounted with one other man, the accused threatened her that if she didn’t communicate to him he would inform her fiance about their relationship.
Going through fixed harassment, the constable went into melancholy and later, died suicide, he mentioned.
Yadav mentioned that Head Constable Mintu obtained info that Bhalotiya was in Meerut in Uttar Pradesh. “On the premise of technical surveillance, a raid was performed and the accused was apprehended from the Meerut Cantonment space,” he mentioned.
Bhalotiya, who had married in 2019, had befriended the sufferer whereas he was travelling house in Rajasthan’s Jhunjhunu from Dhaula Kuan in Delhi in a bus. He had reached Delhi from Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, the officer mentioned.
He gained her belief and saved his friendship along with her. After a while, the sufferer got here to know that he was married and she or he requested him to cease contacting her, however he saved on contacting her and threatened her, Yadav mentioned.