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| HTM, Hisar police station, where the woman has attempted self-immolation. |
A case of self-immolation by a woman has surfaced on Tuesday in Hisar. The incident took place outside the police station, which was immediately controlled by the police. The woman alleges that a young man who worked with her in the factory has done wrong and is now harassing her by threatening to make her pornographic video viral. The police have registered a case against the accused taking action on this complaint.
The woman, who lives in the Government Colony at Mill Road, Hisar, reached the HTM police station here at around 8.30 am on Tuesday. He said that Sumit, a resident of Jawahar Nagar, works in a drug factory called Regen in Sector 1-4. He has misbehaved with Holly by taking her to a hotel near the hospital. During that time, Sumit also made a pornographic video and now pressures the same video repeatedly by threatening to go viral and pressures the wrongdoing.
The police staff present at the police station called the woman ASI to stop her, but before that the woman went back. After this, when she reached the police station again at around 10:30, she had a petrol bottle in her hand. On reaching the station gate, he set himself on fire by pouring petrol on him. However, the police personnel present at the police station quickly extinguished the fire. Due to this, only part of the woman’s clothes got burnt, but she survived.
Soon after, ASP Ashok Kumar and Inspector Saroj from the Mahila police station arrived at the scene. Police took Sumit into custody while acting on the complaint of the woman. According to preliminary investigation, the woman also used to work with Sumit in the medicine factory about 8 months ago. Last night, she tried to commit suicide by hanging from a fan at her house, but the husband saved her. After this morning, he again tried suicide outside the police station.
