Friday November 27, 2009
Bollywood actress held over death of actor
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Compiled by A. RAMAN, ZANI SALLEH AND NG SI HOOI
BOLLYWOOD actress Lavina Bhatia has been arrested by Mumbai police in connection with the death of actor Kunal Singh on Sunday, reported Malaysia Nanban.
Kunal was found dead in February last year when his body was found hanging from the ceiling fan of his rented apartment in Mumbai. Apparently she was in the house for some official work when the incident took place.
Lavina and Kunal had worked together in the film Yogi.
Police had originally classified the case as suicide but in August, the Bombay High Court ordered police to re-look the case after Kunal’s father Rajendra Singh filed a petition that his son was murdered based on injury marks on his arms and chest.
Kunal had acted in the Tamil movie Kadhalar Dinam.
> Tamil Nesan reported that a South Indian woman S. Santhi, 25, was arrested at the Koyambedu bus terminal in Chennai for trying to sell her children for 5,000 rupees (RM500) last Monday.
The woman told police her husband left her when she was seven months’ pregnant with her second child and she had resorted to selling them as she found it difficult to bring them up.
She later agreed with the police to send her children to a children’s home.
> Makkal Osai reported that India’s Home Minister P. Chidambaram said the practice of giving and taking dowry that cuts across all strata of Indian society should be stopped.
He was addressing about 500 young schoolgirls after launching the “Daughters Against Dowry” campaign in New Delhi.
He described child marriages and giving of dowry as two social evils that continued to blight Indian society.
Despite stringent anti-dowry laws and massive social awareness campaigns, the practice of giving dowry during marriages is common and dowry-related crimes have also multiplied.
Other News & Views is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with this > sign, it denotes a separate news item.
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