UP Police saves man after Meta flags suicide post on Instagram
Kaushambi (UP), Aug 19 (PTI): Acting swiftly on an alert from Meta, police here rescued a 20-year-old man who had threatened to consume poison to kill himself in an Instagram post, officials said on Tuesday.
On August 18, Ved Kumar Pal, from Audhan village in the Pipri area uploaded a video purportedly showing a bottle of poison with a caption in Hindi saying, "Tonight I will drink this poison and my story ends here."
Meta flagged the post and shared the video, mobile number and location details with the Uttar Pradesh Police headquarters in Lucknow. The information was then passed on to the Kaushambi social media cell, which alerted Pipri police station.
"A police team rushed to the man's house and managed to save him in time. He was counselled and later handed over to his family," a senior police officer said.
During counselling, Pal told police that he had picked up the cover of a pesticide bottle his father was using in the fields and made the Instagram post without serious intent.
He then gave a written and oral undertaking that he would not repeat such behaviour. His family thanked the police for their swift response, officials added.
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23-year-old woman found dead at Delhi home; suicide suspected
New Delhi (PTI): A 23-year-old woman was found dead in her house in Delhi's Prem Nagar area, with police suspecting it to be a case of suicide, an official said on Tuesday.
The deceased, identified as Anjali Singh, was found motionless in her room on Monday by her sister and her neighbour.
Police said her father, Vinod Kumar Singh (51), told them that he and his wife were away at work at the time of the incident, while their son and the other daughter were also not at home at the time of the incident.
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According to the family, the room in which Anjali was found was locked from the inside. The door was later forcibly opened by a neighbour and her sister with the help of a crowbar.
Her body was found lying on the bed inside the room, police said.
Preliminary inquiry revealed that Anjali had allegedly hanged herself using a piece of cloth tied to the ceiling fan.
It is suspected that the noose eventually might have loosened or torn off, resulting in her being found lying on the bed.
Family members informed the police that Anjali was a final-year student of a librarian science course from Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). About a week ago, her final-year examination results were declared, and she had failed, following which she had been under depression, they said.
The family has not raised any allegation of foul play, police said, adding that no suicide note or external injury marks were found on the body during the initial inspection.
Inquest proceedings have been initiated in the matter as per the law. The body has been sent for post-mortem examination to ascertain the exact cause of death, and further investigation is underway, police added.
