Two found hanging in hotel room in Kerala's Kottayam
Kottayam (Kerala) (PTI): A young man and a woman were found dead inside a hotel room here in a suspected suicide after their families allegedly did not approve their marriage proposal, police said on Saturday.
The deceased were identified as Nandakumar RPC (22) of Puthupally and Asiya Thanamma (19) of Variserry, Parumbaicadu, who were found hanging in the room in Sasthri Road, Kottayam, on Friday evening, police said.
According to officials of Kottayam West police station, both had been in a relationship for the past few years.
They had informed their family members about the relationship and their plan to get married, but the proposal was reportedly not accepted, police said.
The duo checked into the hotel on Thursday.
However, when they failed to vacate the room even after the checkout time, hotel staff broke open the door and found them dead on Friday evening, police said.
A suicide note was recovered from the room in which they stated that their families’ disapproval of their marriage was the reason for taking the extreme step, police said.
Earlier, Asiya’s family had lodged a missing complaint, following which Gandhinagar police registered a case, officials said.
The bodies will be handed over to relatives after postmortem examination, police added.
(Assistance for overcoming suicidal thoughts is available on the state’s health helpline 104, Tele-MANAS 14416.)
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Mamdani’s mother filmmaker Mira Nair’s name appears in 2009 mail in Epstein Files
New Delhi: The controversial documents of the late sex racketeer Jeffrey Epstein continue to throw up surprises with their string of names of famous people, the latest name being that of renowned filmmaker and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s mother Mira Nair.
A fresh set of documents related to the ‘Epstein Files’ was reportedly released by the US Department of Justice on Friday and includes an email which was sent by publicist Peggy Siegal to Epstein in 2009. The email is learned to describe the publicist leaving an afterparty organized at the Manhattan townhouse owned by Ghislaine Maxwell following an event tied to Nair’s 2009 film Amelia.
In the email sent early-morning on October 21, 2009, Seigal is said to have written, “Just left Ghislaine’s townhouse after party for film,” adding that former US President Bill Clinton, founder of Amazon Jeff Bezos and Nair were present at the afterparty.
The mail has also reportedly includes comments on Nair’s new film, which is a biographical drama starring Hillary Swank as the aviator Amelia Earhart and Richard Gere as her husband, publisher George Putnam.
The US Justice Department on Friday released over three million pages of documents, including 2,000 videos and 1,80,000 images, on Epstein.
The sex trafficker, who was also a former financier, allegedly committed suicide while in a New York jail in 2019 and awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges. Ghislaine Maxwell was later convicted for her role in assisting Epstein’s abuse of underage girls.
