Overview
- Police say the man died by suicide on November 5 after sustained abuse over a video showing public urination near the Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Railway Station signboard.
- An FIR names seven under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita provisions for abetment of suicide and criminal intimidation, and the investigation is ongoing to identify others involved.
- Officers cited local social-media amplification, including an account linked to a Shiv Sena district chief, as intensifying the backlash, a claim also raised by the family.
- The two men in the clip issued an apology after it spread, yet threats and trolling continued according to police and family accounts.
- Key details about the deceased’s name and age vary across reports, no arrests have been widely confirmed, and residents gathered to demand swift action.