A 24-year-old Russian woman, Alexandra Djavi, who according to the local police, hung herself from a ceiling fan in a rented home in a North Goa village on Aug 19, had been previously harassed in Chennai in 2019 by a photographer for sexual favours, a lawyer for the Russian consulate in Mumbai.
The Goa-based lawyer Vikram Varma also said that the post-mortems on the remains of Djavi, as well as 34-year-old Ekaterina Titova who was also found dead in her rented apartment in a separate incident, would be conducted in presence of Russian consular officials soon.
“We received information that she was blackmailed in 2019 for sexual favours and Chennai Police had registered an FIR in this regard. But this is preliminary information and we hope that the Goa Police will investigate the matter thoroughly and rule out any possible suspicion in her death,” counsel for the Russian Consulate Adv Vikram Varma .
The FIR in Chennai was registered in 2019 after the woman accused a photographer of harassing her for sexual favours
