HYDERABAD: The 24-year-old woman who was injected with HIV-infected blood by a spurned suitor on March 11 died by suicide at her grandmother’s house in Pocharam on Friday morning.
The accused, who was a relative of the woman, was HIV positive from birth. He had collected his own blood and forcibly injected it into the woman at her house after she had refused to marry him because of his health condition. The accused was booked for attempted murder, and is currently in judicial remand.Police officials said there was no confirmation about the woman’s HIV-positive status after the assault as the test takes about three months to give results.
“The suicide note the woman left behind said the accused had ruined her life, and that the criminal act had resulted in many negative comments about her on social media. She was upset that her privacy had been breached and apologised to her parents for killing herself,” Pocharam IT Corridor sub-inspector Vijay Bhaskar Reddy said.The woman’s parents and her grandmother sell flowers for a living and were out on work on Friday morning.
The family found out about the suicide when the grandmother returned home at around 10 am. “We have shifted the woman’s body to a hospital for a postmortem. Based on the complaint and statement of her family, we will seek legal opinion on whether the abetment to suicide charge can be added against the accused,” said inspector, K Kanakaiah Goud.On March 11, the 24-year-old accused, who worked as a transport supervisor at an IT company in Pocharam, had barged into the victim’s flat when she was alone.
As she approached him, he pulled out a syringe and jabbed it into her forearm. “After emptying the contents of the syringe into her, the accused informed her that she was injected with his HIV-infected blood and left the place,” the inspector said.The woman did not immediately inform her family about the incident. She developed body pains and high fever the next day, prompting family members to take her to a doctor. During examination, the doctor noticed a dark clot on her forearm and questioned her about it. In the presence of her family, the woman revealed that the accused had forcibly injected her with HIV-positive blood.
