Noida, Nov. 5 -- A 24-year-old woman lawyer died by suicide at her home in Noida, Sector 105, on Monday afternoon allegedly after her lawyer friend refused to marry her and also threatened to make her private videos public, police said on Tuesday adding that a case of abetment to suicide was registered and the man detained.

The deceased, a resident of Noida Sector 105 was a practising lawyer at a private firm. The man, originally from Bihar, is a resident of Noida's Sector 76 and runs a law firm in New Delhi.

Both she and the accused lawyer had met after one of her college friends provided her internship at his law firm in Delhi where she was hired as a counsel after six months, said her family.

"On Monday around 5.30pm, her father, an...