Speed News team
| Updated on: 8 April 2016, 12:51 IST
Unable to get over the suicide of popular TV soap Balika Vadhu's lead protagonist Pratyusha Banerjee, a 26-year-old woman hung herself in front of her two-year-son in the suburbs of Raipur, the state capital of Chhattisgarh, late on 6 April.
The deceased, identified as Madhu Mahanand, was quite attached to the programme and had been continuously following the coverage of Pratyusha's suicide.
According to media reports, the police initially arrested the deceased's husband on suspicion, but later let him go after they were apprised of the victim's attachment to the soap.
Pratyusha Banerjee had committed suicide on April 1.