Woman hangs self, husband jumps in front of train in Delhi's Vivek Vihar
New Delhi (PTI): A 40-year-old woman was allegedly strangled by her husband who later jumped to his death in front of a train in east Delhi's Vivek Vihar area, police said on Thursday.
On Wednesday, around 3 pm, police were informed about the body of a woman on the roof of a terrace, and her missing husband.
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Police responded to the call and found the body of a woman lying on a cot, wrapped in a shawl. She was identified as Mahender Kaur, wife of Kulwant Singh.
The couple's 21-year-old son, Shiv Charan, told police his mother may have died by suicide, police said.
Shiv Charan said he had been out to buy cigarettes, and when he returned, he found his mother hanging from the ceiling fan with a chunni.
However, police said, he kept changing his statements, stoking suspicion.
Meanwhile, someone informed the police that Mahender Kaur's husband, Kulwant Singh, was sitting on a nearby railway track. Byt the police reached the tracks, he had been hit by a train.
Kulwant Singh was rushed to Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) Hospital, where doctors declared him brought dead, an officer said.
Police said that neighbours had already brought the woman's body from the first-floor scene of crime to the ground floor before the police arrived, which complicated the initial assessment.
Mahender Kaur's body, with ligature marks on her neck, was sent to the GTB Hospital mortuary for post-mortem.
Doctors pronounced it was death by strangulation, police said.
"Post-mortem findings confirmed death due to strangulation. Prima facie, it appears that the husband strangulated his wife following a quarrel and later died by suicide," the officer said.
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Bihar CM Nitish Kumar takes oath as Rajya Sabha member
New Delhi (PTI): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday took oath as a member of Rajya Sabha, marking the end of his two-decade rule in the eastern state and paving the way for a new chief minister.
The oath was administered by Rajya Sabha Chairman C P Radhakrishnan in his chamber at a brief ceremony. The Chairman later welcomed him as a member of the Upper House and also on his return in Parliament.
Kumar took the oath in Hindi in the presence of Union Minister J P Nadda, who is also leader of the house, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Panchayati Raj Minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh, Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Ram Nath Thakur and Minister of State for Law and Justice Arjun Ram Meghwal.
Bihar deputy chief minister Samrat Chaudhary was also present at the oath-taking.
JDU leader and party's working president Sanjay Kumar Jha, Congress chief whip in Rajya Sabha Jairam Ramesh, besides BJP MP and former union minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy and BJP chief whip in Lok Sabha Sanjay Jaiswal, were among those present during the oath-taking.
"Vice President of India and Chairman, Rajya Sabha, Shri C. P. Radhakrishnan, administered the oath to Shri Nitish Kumar as an elected Member of Rajya Sabha, from Bihar, at Parliament House today," the Vice President's office said on X, while sharing pictures of the oath-taking.
After the oath-taking, Kumar came out of the new Parliament building and spoke about the time he was a member of the Lok Sabha and sat in the old Parliament building.
As Kumar assumes the Rajya Sabha role, it marks the end of his long two-decade rule in Bihar. Kumar will soon resign as chief minister and the NDA is likely to elect a new chief minister of Bihar on April 14.
He has already resigned as a member of the State Legislative Council on March 30 after he was elected to Rajya Sabha.
The JD(U) supremo was elected to the Upper House of Parliament on March 16, and he had to quit as an MLC in the 14-day period after his election.
