Nirupama Murder

• Nirupama's boyfriend, parents accused of assisting her suicide

  When a young journalist named Nirupama Pathak was found dead in her home in Jharkhand, India was forced to re-evaluate its understanding of honour killings. Nirupama was a bright 22-year-old working with a business newspaper in New Delhi.  The fact that her city life, profession and education at a premier college in Delhi had not helped h...

• Court defers bail application of Nirupama's mother till June 9

  The District and Sessions Judge of Koderma on Friday deferred the bail petition of Sudha Pathak, mother of Delhi-based journalist Nirupama Pathak, who was found dead under mysterious circumstances at her Tilaya home in Koderma district till June 9 next.The District and Session Judge M N Singh directed the police to put up the case diary, forensic r...

• Journalist Nirupama case: Forensic reports suggest murder

  Reports submitted by officials of the forensic department probing the death of journalist Nirupama Pathak suggest that she was murdered. Twenty two-year-old Nirupama was found dead at her home in Jharkhand's Koderma district April 29. Earlier on May 9, a senior forensic expert from AIIMS had pointed out ambiguities in the autopsy report of Nirupama...

• Journalist Nirupama's mother released from jail

  Days after journalist Nirupama Pathak was found murdered at her house in Jharkhand, in what seems to be a case of honour killing, there is still no clarity on who killed her. But her mother Sudha, who was arrested on May 3, was released from jail for three days on court orders to participate in her daughter's Shraadh or funeral ceremony.But the inv...

• Delhi journalist murdered: Honour killing?

  A Delhi journalist has been killed allegedly for falling in love with a man outside her caste. Her parents are the main suspects.