Pravalika suicide: Hyderabad police arrest Shivram Rathod from Maharashtra

HYDERABAD: Hyderabad city police arrested an alleged abettor for the suicide of Marri Pravalika from Thane in Maharashtra on Thursday.

Pravalika, a student from Bikkajipally in the Warangal district, died by suicide last week after being deceived by Shivaram Rathod.

According to the police, Shivaram Rathod cheated Pravalika for another woman and did not oppose his parents even when his family forced him to marry another woman.

Marri Vijaya, Marri Pravalika's mother, also blamed Shivaram for her daughter's death and requested that the Telangana government punish him.

Vijaya and her son Pranay pleaded to political parties not to pull their family into politics in a video statement released on social media on Tuesday. "My daughter hanged herself in her hostel room in Hyderabad as she was unable to bear the harassment from Shivaram."