Ludhiana, Dec. 11 -- In a bizarre turn of events, a 24-year-old tailor from Ludhiana ended his life after the woman he had divorced and then helped remarry another man as part of a pact to secure her passage to England allegedly blocked him to snap ties once she reached abroad.

The deceased, hailing from Rattangarh village, jumped into the canal at Gadi Togad village to end his life on Monday, officials said. His family said he took the extreme step after his ex-wife, who moved to England in August on a study visa, stopped answering his calls and severed all communication with him.

What makes the case even more tragic is the arrangement that reportedly preceded it. According to the deceased's family, he had agreed to divorce his wife an...