Kendrapara, July 17 -- A 23-year-old woman allegedly committed suicide yesterday evening after being betrayed and blackmailed by her boyfriend at a rented house under Aul police station in Odisha's Kendrapara district.

The deceased, a resident of Dharmadaspur under Mahanga police limits, was employed at a micro-financing company.

According to the FIR lodged by her brother Chandan Kumar Jena at Aul police station, the victim's boyfriend, identified as Ajay, had established a physical relationship with her under the pretext of marriage.

He later allegedly blackmailed her with an intimate video, which drove her to take the extreme step.

Aul police have registered a case and sent the body for postmortem this morning.

The accused is yet to ...