India, May 23 -- A 46-year-old woman from Sion's Pratiksha Nagar allegedly died by suicide after being subjected to repeated blackmail and harassment by a man she had befriended months ago, following which the Wadala Truck Terminus police arrested the accused on charges of abetment to suicide.

The accused, identified as Shrinivas Shiva Reddy, 46, a labour contractor from Kanukunta in Telangana, was arrested after he allegedly threatened the woman using private photographs and pressured her to continue meeting him, police said.

According to the Wadala TT police, Reddy had accidentally dialled the woman's number around eight months ago. The two subsequently became friends and remained in contact, with Reddy travelling to Mumbai on multipl...