A 35-year-old man allegedly committed suicide in Mumbai after four persons assaulted him and forced him to lick a shoe on which one of the accused had spit, police said on Monday. During the incident, one of the accused spit on his shoe and forced Shaikh to lick it, he said. The police found a purported suicide note from Shaikh’s house in which he had named the four attackers and blamed them for his extreme step, he said. Based on the suicide note, the police arrested Ismail Shaikh (47), Akbar Shaikh (35), Karia Pavse (35) and Afzal Qureshi (44) on Saturday evening, the official said. They were booked under the Indian Penal Code section 306 (abetment of suicide), the official said, adding that an investigation was underway.

Source: Hindustan Times February 12, 2018 06:56 UTC