India, May 29 -- A 61-year-old senior lawyer and his son have been booked by the Colaba police for allegedly abetting the suicide of a 56-year-old woman lawyer, whose body was found in the sea near the Gateway of India in April.

According to the police, the case was registered following a complaint filed by the deceased's sister after the family allegedly found a note in which the woman blamed the senior lawyer for her death. Police said the case stems from a long-running dispute over the deceased family's ancestral property in Mandwa near Alibaug.

According to the police, the deceased's father and uncle were locked in a property dispute. After her father died in May 2016, the Bombay High Court directed the families of the two brothers ...