Overview

• Chikkadpally Police arrested Purnachander Rao early Sunday, charging him with abetment to suicide and invoking sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act
• The investigation was reclassified from a suspicious death to abetment of suicide with POCSO provisions after Swetcha’s father filed a complaint naming Rao as responsible
• Swetcha Votarkar was found hanging in her Jawahar Nagar penthouse on June 27 and authorities are awaiting post-mortem and forensic laboratory reports
• Her father alleges that Rao harassed his daughter for three years under false promises of marriage, inflicting mental distress on her
• Votarkar was a veteran Telugu news anchor of 18 years at channels including TV9 and a TUWJ State Committee member who lived with her mother and school-age daughter