Akanksha Dubey Suicide: Boyfriend Samar Singh arrested in Ghaziabad, cops issue lookout notice for his brother

Days after Bhojpuri actress Akanksha Dubey was found dead in a hotel room in Varanasi, her boyfriend, singer Samar Singh, has been arrested in Ghaziabad.

Samar Singh has been accused of abetting the actress' suicide by Akanksha's mother and he had been absconding since her demise.

Samar Singh's brother Sanjay Singh has also been named as another accused in the complaint filed by Akanksha's mother and a lookout notice has been issued against him.

Akanksha Dubey's boyfriend Samar Singh arrested

According to a report in Navbharat Times, Samar was nabbed by the police in Ghaziabad on Friday morning.

The singer was reportedly planning to fly abroad, however, when the cops got a whiff of it, they informed all the airports to not identify him and not let him leave the country.

Both Samar and Sanjay had fled Varanasi on the day Akanksha was found dead in a hotel room in the city.

Akanksha Dubey's death

Akanksha was found hanging inside a hotel room in Varanasi on March 26.

Post her demise, her mother lodged a case against Samar and Sanjay and accused them of harassing her. She also claimed that Samar used to beat her daughter and that his brother had threatened to kill her.

Akanksha's post-mortem report also revealed the presence of an unknown liquid in her stomach and injury marks on her wrist.

The 25-year-old was quite a popular face in the Bhojpuri film industry and she had starred in several films including 'Kasam Paida Karne Wale Ki 2', 'Mujhse Shaadi Karogi' (Bhopuri) and 'Veeron ke Veer'.