Jabalpur. A 20-year-old national baseball player Sanjana Barkade committed suicide in Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur after a Muslim youth who hid his identity from the victim allegedly refused to remove a private video from social media, threatened her to convert to Islam and harassed her.
Sanjana Barkade hanged herself on 4 June while her family was out for a function following which her father recorded a statement to the police accusing Abdul Mansoori of forcing Sanjana to convert. The police have now arrested Mansoori on charges of abatement to suicide.
Mansoori befriended Sanjana on social media under the alias of Rajan. They met on a social media platform a year ago following which they used to have conversations with each other. Mansoor used to work as a street vendor in Rewa.
Further, Mansoori made a private video public on Instagram which caused trouble for Sanjana. The national-level baseball player asked Mansoori to delete the video on multiple occasions but in vain which eventually resulted in her un-fateful suicide.
The 20-year-old used to live with her parents in Jabalpur’s Sanjeevani Nagar. Sanjana’s father, in his statement to the police, accused Mansoori of forcing her to convert to Islam. The accused continued to threaten her even after Sanjana refused to convert and stopped talking to him.
“As per the deceased’s parents, Abdul posed as Rajan and befriended Sanjana on Instagram one year ago. He shot some videos of her and started demanding money. He also forced her to convert to his faith,” said Inspector Kranti Barve according to reports.
“The accused forcibly took away her medals and certificates. She committed suicide when her parents were not at home. Sanjana is a second-year BA student from Seoni district who was staying with her parents in Jabalpur,” Barve said.
