A senior MHADA official was booked on Sunday for abetment of suicide after his wife allegedly killed herself in their flat in Kandivali in north Mumbai, a police official said, reported the PTI.

The 42-year-old woman allegedly committed suicide in her flat in Lokhandwala area of Kandivali East on Saturday evening, the Samata Nagar police station official said.

"On the complaint of her brother, we have lodged an FIR against her husband, who is the deputy registrar of state-run MHADA (Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority), and her mother-in-law Yamabai Katare under section 108 (abetment of suicide) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita," the official said, according to the PTI.