Two Kolkata school girls dead after alleged joint suicide

Kolkata: Two teenaged girls were found dead in the courtyard of an 18-storey apartment block in a posh housing complex in the southern fringe of Kolkata on Tuesday, police said.

Police suspected that Sabiba Chandana and Neha Panjari, both aged 15 and students of class IX of the same school, committed suicide by jumping from the roof of the building. However, no suicide note was found.

"A scream sound came at 6 am, it was heard by the guard. When he came here, he found that the dead bodies of two girls was lying here... police investigation is going on," said Sujay Chandra, Deputy Commissioner, South, Kolkata Police.

While Sabiba was a resident of the housing complex off EM Bypass under East Jadavpur police station, Neha had come to visit her, police said.

The incident occurred 11 days after a woman and her two daughters jumped to death from a 36-storey building in a suspected suicide pact. According to police, they were suffering from depression after the recent death of the woman's husband.

(With inputs from PTI)

Paras Bhasin case: Wife tells police he attempted suicide twice before

New Delhi: In a fresh development in the Paras Bhasin death probe, his wife Shaily Mittal gave a two-page suicide note to the police and reportedly told them that Paras had attempted suicide twice before.

Shaily, along with her father, was questioned by the police yesterday. The police are verifying the suicide note.

Mr Bhasin, 22 years old, was found dead near a railway track in East Delhi on Saturday - his head was missing, a tattoo of his wife's name, Shaily Mittal, helped identify him - but it took the police nearly three days to register a case of murder, after first inexplicably describing it as a suicide. Mr Bhasin's father-in-law was allegedly unhappy with his daughter's marriage.


A group of around 50 people organised a protest march last evening from Mr Bhasin's residence in Subhash Nagar in west Delhi to the DCP's office in Rajouri Garden, demanding action against his wife's family. Mr Bhasin's family alleges that his in-laws are responsible for his death.

"Earlier, the police said that it's a case of suicide. When the media held a presser, they said it's a case of murder, now after the results from the forensic laboratory, they have again changed it to a case of suicide. I saw my brother's face, it was in pieces. It will not be into pieces if a train ran over it, they are just trying to fool us," said his sister Surbhi.

A man who reported his death to Mr Bhasin's family was identified yesterday as a passer-by, who found Mr Bhasin's ID near the railway tracks and phoned his home.

The police said yesterday that reports that Mr Bhasin's corpse had been found headless were inaccurate. They say he was run over by a train, and that the impact left his body severely dismembered. They say they cannot rule out whether he committed suicide - a notion that deeply upsets his family, which blames his in-laws for his death.

"His body was not cut into pieces, but crushed. We are still investigating whether it was suicide or murder," said Sanjeev Jain, DCP, Crime Branch.

Police said they were planning to question the drivers of trains.

Mr Bhasin secretly married Shaily, the young woman he was in love with, nearly four months ago, says his brother. However, because the bride's family was against the relationship, Ms Mittal continued to live at her parents' home, without acknowledging her wedding.

On August 24, she allegedly broke the news of her marriage to her family. A day later, Mr Bhasin's family met her mother at a mall. Her father made phone calls to the Bhasins' neighbours, inquiring about the family. On August 29, Mr Bhasin finally met his father-in law, who he would later tell an uncle, humiliated him.

On September 1, he left his home and was found dead hours later.

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21-year-old Goan kills himself after MMS clip goes viral

Panaji: A 21-year-old in Goa has killed himself after an MMS that featured him with his girlfriend went viral.

The police says that Arjun Mainkar from a village in North Goa, hanged himself on August 5 . His suicide note says that his girlfriend's family had allegedly threatened to harm his sister as revenge for the MMS.

The police said they have registered a case against the girl's family for abetment of suicide, though no one has been arrested so far.

After the MMS was allegedly shot by Arjun, his family as well as his girlfriend's had decided that the couple should get married.

Arjun had filed an affidavit before the local notary agreeing to marry his girlfriend, the police said.

A senior official from Valpoi police station, which is investigating the case, said Arjun's two-page suicide note mentions that the girl's mother and her three brothers were harassing him and had threatened to hurt his sister.

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Geetika Sharma suicide case: Another MDLR employee charged

New Delhi: The Delhi police have charged another MDLR employee under the IT act for forging a letter making false allegations against Geetika Sharma and threatening to extradite her to Dubai.

A case has been filed case against Chand Shivrup, the assistant HR manager with MDLR for sending the forged letter from Dubai to Geetika threatening extradition for not returning Rs. 50,000.

The police has also slapped fresh charges against former the Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda who is accused of abetting the suicide of his former employee Geetika Sharma.

"We have invoked section 66 (A) under IT (Information Technology) Act as the accused forged details and sent them through electronic messages," Special Commissioner Dharmendra Kumar said.

Geetika, 23, a former flight attendant of the now defunct MDLR Airlines owned by Mr Kanda, had accused him and his employee Aruna Chaddha of harassing her and forcing her to commit suicide.

She died on the night of Aug 4-5 at her house in Delhi's Ashok Vihar area. Mr Kanda and Ms Chaddha have denied the allegations.


(With inputs from agencies)

In suicide note, student blames Facebook comments

Jalandhar, Punjab: Raksha Sharma, a student of computer engineering at the MCM Polytechnic College in Jalandhar, was found hanging from the ceiling fan in her hostel room on Tuesday morning. In that room was a suicide note. The 20-year-old blames two former students of the same college-both male- for harassing her and posting comments on Facebook that distressed her.

Based on the note, the police have arrested the two boys, who say they are not guilty.

Raksha was orphaned when her parents were killed in 1997 by militants in Jammu. A local orphanage affiliated to an NGO SOS Village has been looking after her over the years and was her guardian.

"I haven't spoken to her in three months, and she even considered me as her brother. I don't know how my name has come up in her note. I am ready for any investigation," says Luvpreet Singh, 21 years old, one of the accused.

The other boy admits that he posted comments but says she had responded online to his remarks, and did not seem agitated. "I feel bad she killed herself but I am not responsible," says Deepak Saini , 21 years old.

"We would speak to her very often and check about her studies, but she never mentioned this harassment to us. We are really shocked," says Prasanjeet Das, the Director of the SOS village Jammu.

The police say they found no computer in Raksha's room but will go through her Facebook account to verify the allegations in the suicide note.


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