A 31-year-old Nigerian man, Chijioke John Okoye, has been arrested in India for allegedly blackmailing and extorting money from female doctor which led her to commit suicide.

The accused had allegedly obtained some obscene photographs of the woman and used them to extract lakhs of rupees from her.

The woman allegedly ended her life as the accused kept demanding more money and threatened to leak the explicit content online.

Okoye was nabbed in New Delhi on Friday March 21, 2025. He was brought to Cuttack in Odisha on Sunday March 23, 2025 to be produced in court.

Briefing newsmen on Sunday, the Commissioner of Police, Cuttack, DCP Khilari Rishkesh Dnyandeo, said the suicide note left by the victim, a 37-year-old, revealed she took the drastic step on March 1, 2025, after being repeatedly blackmailed and threatened to pay money by some unknown person(s) on WhatsApp.

Police said Okoye had been staying in the National capital since 2020.