IRS officer arrested after live-in partner's suicide in posh Noida flat
Noida, May 27: The Noida Police has arrested an Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer in connection with the death of his live-in partner, whose body was found inside their apartment in a posh society here on May 25, officials said on Monday.
The police said the body of the woman, who worked for BHEL, was found hanging from a fan inside the flat on tower number 8 of Lotus Boulevard Society in Sector 100 here and it appeared to be a case of suicide.
Accused Saurabh Meena (35) is an IRS officer of the 2016 batch while the deceased Shilpa Gautham (37) worked at Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), according to a police official.
"We received an information on Sunday about the suicide of a woman in Lotus Boulevard society. Immediately a team of local Sector 39 police station reached the spot and it was found that the woman, who was living there with her friend Saurabh, had died by hanging from the fan," Additional DCP (Noida) Manish Mishra said.
"The police field unit also reached the spot for investigation and the woman's family were also called in there after which the body was sent for post-mortem," Mishra said.
He said later the woman's family filed a complaint with the police after which an FIR was lodged in the matter.
Saurabh has been arrested and sent to judicial custody, the additional DCP said, adding that further legal proceedings are underway.
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PhonePe system faces outage due to technical glitch
New Delhi, May 12 (PTI): The country's biggest fintech firm PhonePe reported a technical glitch in its system that led to the failure of transactions on its platform.
PhonePe co-founder Rahul Chari said that the company at PhonePe has initiated active DR drills, with heightened cybersecurity measures on its network firewall.
"This evening, 100 per cent of our traffic across all our services was being served through a new data centre. Unfortunately, the Monday evening peak traffic exposed a network capacity shortfall due to which transactions started failing.
"We have now rebalanced our traffic across our other sites and are seeing the recovery. Our apologies for this. We assure to take these learnings and further strengthen our systems," he said.
According to the digital services outage tracker platform Downdetector, the report started coming in at around 6 pm IST and peaked around quarter part seven.
Several users across the country experienced transaction failures in UPI transactions but they confused it as a glitch in UPI system.
UPI system had earlier faced three outages between March 26 to April 12.
