Overview
- In Hyderabad, railway police summoned the husband of Penaty Vijaya after she and her two teenage children were killed by a train, with a handwritten note recovered and autopsy results pending.
- Bengaluru police registered rape and murder charges after 65-year-old Savitha Shankar was found strangled and domestic help Devaraju was found dead by hanging, with doctors giving an oral indication of sexual assault and FSL examinations conducted.
- Pune rural police arrested Raju Pandurang Jadhav for abetment after his wife and two children were recovered from a well in Pabal, following a reported quarrel and a complaint by the woman’s sister.
- In Karnataka’s Bagalkot district, police are investigating the deaths of three children after their mother, Roopa Hanumanth Goudar, allegedly killed them and survived a suicide attempt by ingesting diesel, with her statement awaited.
- In Maharashtra’s Beed district, police reclassified a December well death as murder and registered a case against the deceased mother following her husband’s complaint.