A 52-year-old priest died by suicide inside a temple in a Mumbai’s Kandivali area, hours after he was accused of seeking sexual favours from a young woman, a police officer said on Saturday.

According to the police, a 19-year-old woman and her father visited the Kandivali Police Station in suburban Mumbai around 2 am on Saturday, alleging that the priest had called her at 10.30 pm on Friday and asked for sexual favours, news agency PTI reported.