India, Dec. 6 -- A former corporator was arrested on Friday for alleged abetment of suicide, a day after a 35-year-old woman dancer died by suicide in Maharashtra's Jamkhed, police said.

The woman, a resident of Thane, was found hanging in a room in a private lodge. No suicide note was found, an officer said.

According to the preliminary investigation, the police officer said that Sandeep Gaikwad had allegedly harassed and pressured the woman to marry him.

Inspector Dahrath Chudhari of the Jamkhed police station said, "As per the complaint filed by the mother of the victim, the accused was pressuring the victim for marriage. Might be due to mounting pressure she may have taken extreme steps."

Police said that CCTV footage showed Gaikw...