20-year-old woman dies after being pushed before running train by boyfriend, father dies of shock
Chennai (PTI): The boyfriend of the 20-year old woman who died after he allegedly pushed her before a running train here on Thursday was nabbed, police said on Friday.
In a turn of events, the woman's father also died on Thursday night on hearing news about the demise of his daughter, the police said.
Special teams which were formed to trace the suspect nabbed him near Thoraipakkam early on Friday.
"He was arrested between 1 AM and 1.30 AM near Thoraipakkam," an official told PTI.
According to police, the couple was seen talking on Thursday afternoon at the St Thomas Mount Railway station here and as the conversation escalated into a heated argument, the man in his 20s, allegedly pushed her in front of a moving local train as fellow commuters panicked before escaping from the place.
Railway police retrieved the body of the woman and sent it to the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital for autopsy.
The body of the father who died was also sent to the hospital for an autopsy, they said.
The victim's mother, a constable at the Adambakkam police station has been on leave due to ill health, police said.
In 2016, a 24-year old woman IT professional was murdered on a railway station platform in Nungambakkam in the city. The man accused of killing her died by alleged suicide in prison.
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Will vacate one of two assembly seats won in 10 days: BJP''s Suvendu
Kolkata (PTI): BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, who defeated West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Bhabanipur and secured Nandigram for three times in a row in the recent assembly polls, said on Wednesday that he would vacate one of the two constituencies within 10 days.
Adhikari also asserted that the party's central leadership would decide which constituency he would retain.
"I will vacate one seat within 10 days. The party will decide which one I retain. I will not forget my responsibility towards the people of Bhabanipur and Nandigram," he said.
Adhikari on Monday defeated Banerjee in Bhabanipur by over 15,000 votes, puncturing what was long seen as her safest political refuge and delivering a decisive psychological blow to the TMC, amid a sweeping BJP surge across West Bengal.
Addressing party workers and supporters in Nandigram in Purba Medinipur district, the BJP leader appealed to them not to take out victory processions immediately and instead maintain peace.
"Do not take out victory rallies now. Maintain peace and discipline. Celebrate after May 9, after taking permission," he told party workers.
State BJP president Samik Bhattacharya on Wednesday announced that the oath-taking ceremony of the new government will be held on May 9 at Brigade Parade Ground.
Referring to alleged attacks on BJP workers during the TMC regime, Adhikari said he would not forget the “atrocities" faced by them and assured them of taking appropriate action against perpetrators through legal processes.
"I was part of the 2011 ‘poribartan’ (change), and now I am part of the real change. I offer my gratitude to the people of Nandigram," Adhikari said.
He was referring to the TMC's victory in 2011 when the Mamata Banerjee party dismantled the 34-year Left Front regime in the state.
Adhikari offered prayers at a Hanuman statue in Nandigram and remembered the BJP workers, who had died in political violence.
"We will work in such a way that the BJP government in Bengal stays for 100 years," he said, expressing hope that the BJP’s vote share in the state would rise from the current 46 per cent to 60 per cent in future elections.
The BJP leader also assured residents of Nandigram of improved drinking water supply and better hospital and education infrastructure.
