Lovejeet Singh Rana, A 26-year-old Gwalior-based engineer, allegedly died by suicide amid pressure over a POCSO case in Dabra. His family alleges he was being blackmailed for Rs 60 lakh to “settle” the case. While his associate was in jail, Lovejeet was absconding. Police are investigating the incident.
According to his family, a 26-year-old engineer killed himself on Saturday at his uncle’s Gwalior home after ingesting poison due to growing pressure about a POCSO case. Love, also known as Lovejeet Singh Rana, was an inhabitant of Ramgarh in Dabra and a BTech graduate. A two-and-a-half-year-old girl was allegedly raped in this instance.
Lovejeet had been living with his uncle in Purushottam Vihar Colony after losing his job after the case was registered. On Friday night, he allegedly ingested poison. On Saturday morning, family members discovered him in critical condition and hurried him to a hospital, where medical professionals pronounced him dead.
The family claims that in order to drop the case, the girl’s mother sought Rs 60 lakh. The family also claimed that the complainant’s attorney had threatened them and put financial pressure on them. They said that Love committed suicide as a result of depression brought on by the ongoing pressure.
After the mother claimed that Lovejeet and another guy had taken her daughter for a car ride and returned her scared and injured, authorities confirmed that a formal complaint under the POCSO Act had been filed at the Dabra City police station in April.
At the time, the accusations had caused indignation. Lovejeet, who finished his engineering studies at an institute in Indore and was employed by a multinational corporation in Gurgaon, is said to have excelled in his board exams in Dabra.
When the case was filed in April, he had returned home on leave. According to the police, an investigation is under progress and the body has been sent for a post-mortem.
