Kendrapara: The police Sunday arrested two journalists on charges of abetment to suicide of a 50-year-old man they allegedly framed in a false rape case in Odisha’s Kendrapara district, an officer said.
A woman, who was in complicity with the two in levelling the rape charge against the deceased, is at large.
The 50 -year-old man from a village under Patkura police station hanged himself from a tree Thursday after being accused of raping the woman, the officer said.
The police found a suicide note in which he blamed the two journalists and a 31-year-old woman for his death. The woman, prompted by the accused duo, had lodged a rape case against the deceased, the officer informed.
Police swung into action after his wife filed a police complaint against the three, holding them responsible for her spouse’s death.
A local court remanded the two – journalists of a private television channel and a YouTube channel – to judicial custody after rejecting their bail application.
The police are searching for the woman, the third accused in the case.
PTI
