Bengaluru woman dies by suicide after killing four-year-old daughter
Bengaluru, Feb 17 (PTI): A 34-year-old woman died by suicide after allegedly killing her four-year-old daughter here, police said on Monday.
Shruti, who is the president of Pavagada Gram Panchayat first killed her daughter, Roshni by hanging her from a ceiling fan using a dupatta and later died by suicide, they added.
The incident occurred at Ramaiah Layout in Nagasandra on Sunday evening when Shruti's husband was not at home.
A suicide note recovered from the spot stated that she was being harassed by her husband for dowry and that he had an illicit relationship with another woman, a senior police officer said.
Citing the preliminary investigation, the police said the woman married Gopalakrishna in 2014.
The couple had a strained relationship and as per the complaint filed by her family, Gopalakrishna who works as an auditor was allegedly involved in an illicit relationship with another woman, the police officer said.
Gopalakrishna's alleged affair caused trouble in the couple's marriage leading to frequent arguments, the complainant alleged.
The police officer added that this was a key factor in their disputes.
Following the incident, police said a case of abetment to suicide had been registered against the woman's husband.
Further investigation is underway, they added.
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Gurugram Police arrest BJP Yuva Morcha member for spreading fake murder story on social media
New Delhi: Gurugram Police have arrested BJP Yuva Morcha member Hariom Mishra, for allegedly spreading a fabricated and communally sensitive story on social media about the murder of a college student in Gurugram.
Mishra who is also known as Shaurya Mishra had shared a collage of four photographs on his X handle earlier this month. He claimed that a 24-year-old college student, identified as Nikita Agarwal, had been murdered by her classmate Arif Khan in Gurugram. In the post, he alleged that the woman was blackmailed, forced into prostitution, gangraped, and eventually killed. He also claimed that Arif dumped her body in a forest. The claims were presented as being based on police sources.
The post went viral and garnering over 1.5 lakh views, and was amplified by several right-wing social media handles across X, Facebook and Instagram. A verification of the claims revealed that no such incident had taken place in Gurugram. A search of credible news reports showed no record of any such murder. The police said this news would have inevitably attracted media attention if it were true.
On December 11, Gurugram Police publicly refuted the claims through their official X handle. They stated that the information which was being circulated was completely false. The police warned that legal action would be taken against those spreading misinformation. Despite the warning, Mishra neither deleted the post nor issued any clarification.
Police in Gurugram confirmed Mishra's arrest on December 16. The police said a FIR was filed after he continued to spread false information about the alleged murder of a Hindu woman by Muslim man. Police said Mishra, a resident of Uttar Pradesh's Kaushambi district, is now being investigated.
Gurugram Police spokesperson Sandeep Singh told The Print that the accused had deliberately misrepresented facts and used objectionable content to spread hatred along religious lines. “Such posts can create serious disturbances in society, and the police take these matters very seriously,” he said.
A reverse image search conducted by fact-checkers at Alt News, revealed that the photographs used in the viral post were unrelated to the claims, while two of the images were traced to a Pinterest account belonging to influencer Maulik Chopra and another image was sourced from an Instagram post by influencer Shivam Thakur featuring a woman named Deepanshi Rawat. The fourth image was found on an unrelated Instagram page. The images depicted different individuals and had no connection to any crime.
Police said they are also investigating Mishra’s motive behind sharing the false and provocative content.
