Man murders estranged wife, posts selfie as WhatsApp status
Coimbatore (PTI): A 32-year-old man brutally hacked his estranged wife at a women’s hostel and posted his selfie with her body as WhatsApp status, police said on Monday.
The incident left the inmates of the private women’s hostel shocked, and it also triggered a political outrage with the opposition parties raising questions on women’s safety.
The man remained at the hostel till the police arrived and he was taken into custody on Sunday, an official said.
The 28-year-old woman, police said, was working at a private firm in Coimbatore, and was living in a private women's hostel following separation from her husband. She hailed from Tharuvai near Melapalayam in the southern district of Tirunelveli.
Her husband, S Balamurugan, went to her hostel on Sunday afternoon under the pretext of meeting her and later hacked her to death with a sickle following a heated exchange of words, police said.
He later took a selfie of himself with her corpse and uploaded it as his WhatsApp status, claiming she betrayed him, the official said.
Due to a dispute with him, the woman left their two children under the care of her mother in Coimbatore and moved into a hostel.
The Rathinapuri police have registered a case and are investigating.
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BJP aims not to erase Nehru, but to destroy him: Sonia Gandhi
New Delhi: Congress leader Sonia Gandhi has alleged that the BJP’s objective is not merely to erase Jawaharlal Nehru, but to destroy his legacy and the foundational values on which the nation stands.
Speaking at the Nehru Centre India event held at Jawahar Bhawan, Gandhi said that while analysis and criticism of Nehru’s contributions are welcome, deliberately twisting his words and writings is unacceptable.
Without naming the BJP or RSS directly, she said it is evident that the primary goal of the current administration is to blame Nehru for everything. According to her, the intention is not only to wipe out Nehru’s memory but to dismantle the social, political, and economic foundation of India itself.
Her remarks come days after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh stirred controversy by claiming that Nehru wanted to use public funds to construct the Babri Masjid, a move he said was stopped by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. The Congress has dismissed Singh’s claim as false and accused him of attempting to fuel polarization.
Gandhi further stated that those attacking Nehru today had no role in the freedom struggle nor in the drafting of the Constitution. She added that the ideology behind these attacks had long cultivated an atmosphere of hatred, culminating in the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. Yet today, she said, the followers of Gandhi’s killers continue to glorify them.
While acknowledging that it is natural to analyze and critique the life of such a towering figure, she asserted that systematic attempts to rewrite history and tarnish Nehru’s legacy for narrow political motives cannot be accepted.
