Blackmailed Over Non-public Video, Mumbai CA Fudges Accounts, Drains Financial savings, Dies By Suicide After Dropping Rs 3 Crore

In a tragic incident, a 32-year-old younger and well-earning Chartered Accountant in Mumbai ended his life after being blackmailed over his personal video. The person, recognized as Raj Leela Extra, from the Santacruz space, took his life by consuming poison. Notably, Extra left behind a three-page suicide observe through which he named two individuals for his dying. The police have since lodged an FIR and have began an investigation.

Within the observe, Raj named two people — Rahul Parwani and Saba Qureshi — claiming they have been chargeable for pushing him to the sting. He alleged that that they had coerced him into siphoning funds from his firm’s accounts and draining his private financial savings.

“I, Raj Extra, am committing suicide in the present day. Rahul Parwani is chargeable for my suicide. He manipulated me and blackmailed me for months. He compelled me to interrupt my financial savings and stole cash from my firm account. Rahul Parwani and Saba Qureshi are chargeable for my dying,” he wrote within the suicide observe, as per media studies.

Police have since booked the duo on costs of extortion and abetment to suicide.

In accordance with investigators, the accused have been conscious of Raj’s substantial earnings and investments, notably within the inventory market. Utilizing a non-public video as leverage, they allegedly blackmailed him for months, forcing him to switch massive sums of cash from his agency’s accounts into theirs. They even reportedly took possession of his luxurious automobile beneath duress.

The suicide observe revealed that Raj had been going through blackmail for the previous 18 months, throughout which the 2 extracted crores of rupees from him. One of many pages was addressed to his mom, the place he apologised and urged his household to remain robust. One other web page was written for his colleagues.

His mom informed police that Raj had been mentally disturbed and beneath extreme stress in current months — a truth she now believes was because of the sustained harassment he confronted.

Whereas the police have filed a case of extortion and abetment to suicide, no arrest has been made to this point within the case.

(Discussions on suicides will be triggering for some. However suicides are preventable. In case you are in search of assist, some suicide prevention helpline numbers in India are 011-40769002 from Sanjivini (Delhi-based, 10 am – 5.30 pm) and 044-24640050 from Sneha Basis (Chennai-based, 8 am – 10 pm), +91 9999666555 from Vandrevala Basis (Mumbai-based, 24×7).