KADAPA: A 27-year-old teacher at a private school, filmed on the sly in the nude by an Intermediate student and a dropout on a cellphone camera, ended her life on Thursday afternoon.

It was not only the sheer humiliation at the hands of hoodlums, but apparent insensitivity on the part of the police that led to the suicide.

Both the accused, Narendrakumar Reddy, an Intermediate student, and Jagadeswar Reddy, a school dropout, were once students of the victim D Sunitha. Narendra, in fact, was her neighbour.

The dastardly duo, who were arrested by the police on Thursday night, wrote to Sunitha on August 21 saying they had filmed her with a cellphone camera while she was bathing and threatened to circulate the photos through CDs if she failed to cough up Rs 5000.

Sunitha promptly brought this to the notice of her husband, Ramakrishna, an employee in a private workshop. The couple approached China Chowk police station to lodge a complaint.

The police summoned the two teenagers, whose parents pleaded with Ramakrishna not to file a formal complaint as the future of their children was at stake. The couple then dropped their plan but requested the police to ensure that the boys handed over the CDs.

For their part, the police, after a stern warning let the boys off. Sunitha and Ramakrishna were under the impression that the boys would mend their ways. Instead, the two, all through on Wednesday went around crowing that they were not going to be cowed by such ‘‘intimidation’’ by the police and the couple.

‘‘We will do what we have to do,’’ they reportedly told some friends. When this reached the ears of Sunitha, she hanged herself at her house in Shivanandapuram on Thursday afternoon. Police shifted the body to the hospital mortuary for autopsy.

Ramakrishna partly blamed the police for his wife’s suicide. ‘‘I did not lodge a formal complaint at the request of the boys’ parents. I only requested the police to seize the CDs. But they did not do the needful,’’ he alleged.

But Sunitha’s father-in-law Lakshmaiah actually alleged that the police let the accused get away rightly.

For his part, sub-inspector of police Bhasker Goud said that had the couple lodged a formal complaint serious action would have been initiated against the accused.