Hyderabad woman, 22, forcibly injected with HIV-positive blood dies by suicide

A 22-year-old woman, who was allegedly injected with HIV-positive blood by a relative last month, died by suicide in Hyderabad on Friday, police said.

According to officials, the accused had forcibly injected his HIV-infected blood into the woman at her residence on March 11. The incident occurred after the woman’s parents called off her marriage to him upon discovering that he was HIV positive.

The woman was found hanging at her grandmother’s house. A suicide note was recovered from the scene, police said.

A case has been registered at the Pocharam IT Corridor police station in connection with the woman’s death. Based on preliminary investigation, police said the woman had written in the note that she was “disturbed” by the way the incident was portrayed on social media.

Police further stated that the accused and the victim were relatives, and her parents had initially planned to arrange their marriage. However, after learning that the man’s parents were already HIV positive, the woman’s family got him tested for the virus in September last year. When he was found to be HIV positive, the marriage was called off.

Investigators said the accused carried out the act believing that the woman would then be compelled to marry him and stay with him.

The accused was earlier arrested and booked on charges of attempt to murder while the woman was undergoing treatment in hospital following the injection, police added.