Patna, April 10 (IANS) In a heart-wrenching incident, a minor girl committed suicide by hanging herself inside her home after allegedly being raped at gunpoint in Bihar’s Nalanda district. The Class XII student took the extreme step, almost twelve hours after the incident, as she purportedly failed to overcome the distress and trauma of violation.The victim, among the youngest of five sisters, recently passed her Intermediate Examinations, while her tormentor is said to be a person from…
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Bengaluru, April 10 (IANS) The Special Investigation Team (SIT) has concluded its probe into the high-profile suicide case of Confident Group Founder and Chairman C.J. Roy, which occurred during Income Tax (IT) raids at his Bengaluru office. Officials have concluded that Roy died by suicide due to depression, officials stated on Friday.The government had handed over the investigation to the SIT following allegations that pressure from Income Tax (IT) officials had led to Roy’s death.However, t…
Kottayam, April 7 (IANS) With just 48 hours left for voting to start, in a shocking incident that has sent ripples through Kerala’s political landscape, a farmer was found hanging inside the CPI local committee office at Thalayazham in Vaikom, a constituency represented by the party.The deceased, Chellappan Pulikkasheri, a local farmer and agricultural researcher, had earlier levelled serious allegations against party leaders, making his death particularly contentious.Chellappan had publicly a…
Kolkata, April 6 (IANS) A man allegedly died by suicide after his name was removed from the electoral rolls in West Bengal following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, police said on Monday.The deceased has been identified as Anarul Sheikh (32), a resident of Nalhati in Birbhum district. According to the police, Sheikh was under severe mental stress after discovering that his name had been deleted from the voter list following the publication of the supplementary electoral roll.The f…
Bengaluru, April 1 (IANS) The preliminary findings into the techie couple suicide case reported from the Kothanur police station limits in Karnataka’s Bengaluru indicate that job loss due to Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the US triggered the husband’s depression, police said on Wednesday. In a shocking incident, the wife jumped from the 17th floor after finding her husband’s body hanging at their residence. Police suspect that she took the extreme step in a state of shock after seeing her husb…
Amravati, March 26 (IANS) In a shocking incident, Vijay Dilip Nagapure (35), a police constable attached to the Quick Response Team (QRT) Super Rapid Squad under the Amravati City Police Commissionerate, died by suicide on Thursday morning. He allegedly shot himself in the head with his service pistol inside the office. Nagapure, a native of Dhamangaon Katpur in Morshi taluka, was residing in Amravati city. He was unmarried and had been serving in the police force since joining the 2014 batch.Ac…
Kolkata, March 24 (IANS) Two bodies were recovered in the Mahamaytala area of Garia, on the southern outskirts of Kolkata, on Tuesday, in West Bengal. A woman was hacked to death inside her beauty parlour by a Kashmiri man, who later committed suicide. Police said the incident appears to stem from a strained relationship.According to a senior police officer, the deceased woman has been identified as Rupbani Das, aged approximately 50. She ran a beauty parlour in Mahamaytala, under th…
New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) The Supreme Court has quashed criminal proceedings against a Gujarat-based man accused of abetting suicide over alleged harassment for repayment of loans, holding that mere demand for repayment of debt cannot constitute abetment.Allowing the appeal filed by Dhirubhai Nanjibhai Patel Lotwala, a bench of Justices Manoj Misra and Manmohan set aside the Gujarat High Court’s order, which had refused to quash the FIR and subsequent proceedings under Sections 306 and 506(2)…
Mumbai, March 18 (IANS) A 32-year-old police trainee was found dead at the Kalina Police Training Centre in Santacruz, with authorities recovering a suicide note from his possession that accused his girlfriend’s parents of pressuring him to end the relationship and issuing threats that drove him to take the extreme step. The deceased has been identified as Bhaiyasab Maruti Vhavle, a resident of Khadgaon village in Parbhani district, Maharashtra. Vhavle had recently joined the police force as a d…
Hyderabad, March 12 (IANS) In yet another shocking incident in Telangana, a woman on Thursday killed her two minor daughters by throwing them into a well before committing suicide by jumping in herself, police said.The incident occurred at Yelkicharla village in Bhootpur mandal in the state’s Mahabubnagar district.According to police, Jangamma, 42, came to a well in an agricultural field along with her two daughters and son. She threw Jyothi, 15, and Sailaja, 13, into the well before jumping in …