Chhattisgarh Police on Friday arrested a journalist on charges of abetment after a woman corporator committed suicide after accusing him of spreading misinformation about her in Raigarh city, police said.
Amit Pandey has been arrested, Raigarh Superintendent of Police Abhishek Meena said.
Sanjana Sharma (40), a corporator of the ruling Congress in the Raigarh Municipal Corporation, consumed a poisonous substance on the night of March 30-31, Meena said.
She died during treatment in a hospital on Thursday, he added.
A handwritten complaint addressed to the Chakradharnagar SHO was recovered from Sharma’s room which stated that she was disturbed over a ‘false’ news report published against her by Pandey, the officer said.
She also accused Pandey, who works for a news portal, of spreading misinformation against her on social media platform, and said he should be held response if anything happened to her, Meena said.
Pandey was arrested on charges of abetment to suicide.