lucknow days after a hotel manager allegedly ended his life the city police on monday booked three persons including his two close female friends for abetment to suicide the deceased mayank awasthi 38 aka shashank of barabanki worked as a manager in a hotel in lucknow and used to stay at a rented accommodation in sector d of indiranagar for the last four yearshis brother raj awasthi said mayank was in friendship with one nidhi verma of barabanki for the last 810 years mayank had told me a number of times that nidhi used to play harassing tactics with him and exploited him mentally monetarily and physically in connivance with her friends raj allegedhe said mayank later became close to one anshu singh of aliganj on march 22 anshu phoned me and informed me that mayank was not opening the doors of his rented room i reached the room and found mayank hanging from the ceiling raj saidraj further said he had phoned mayank on march 21 but calls went unansweredi then called anshu who told me that mayank was resting in his room he saidsho ghazipur indiranagar sunil kumar singh said an fir under the charges of abetment to suicide was registered against nidhi verma anshu singh and an unidentified person and further probe was on