Lockdown: Mumbai cop hangs self, family stranded in Sangli

Mumbai, Apr 20 () A 27-year-old woman constableallegedly committed suicide on Monday afternoon in the SRPFCamp in Goregaon in the metropolis and her family in Sangliclaimed they were unable to secure permission to come hereamid the lockdown for the coronavirus outbreak.

Surekha Berde, attached to Andheri railway police, wasfound hanging in her flat by her husband Pramod, said police.

Her brother Arjun Viveki said, "We were informed aboutthe death at 4pm. We tried to get online passes to travel fromSangli to Mumbai but we have not managed to get them. Even thelocal police station is not being able to help us."

Senior Inspector Gitendra Bhavsar of Vanrai policestation said an accidental death report had been registeredand probe into why she took this extreme step was underway. ZABNM BNM