24-year-old boy leaps to death, live streams on Facebook before committing suicide

April 4, 2017

Mumbai, Apr 4: In a most chilling scene of suicide, 24-year-old Arjun Bharadwaj took his life by jumping from his 19th floor room of a posh Bandra hotel, but not before posting videos of his activity prior to the act. Bharadwaj went live on Facebook, informing the world that he was about to end his life. The police have asked TV channels not to telecast the video.

bhardwajCool and composed, the Narseemonaji College student was seen sipping wine straight from the bottle. He said he would first drink his favourite wine and eat bacon pasta. All through, Bharadwaj was constantly smoking. Then, he got emotional and admitted that he had lost count of the steps he would take next. He then switched off the link, saying he obviously couldn’t record what he was about to do.

The police later found Bharadwaj lying in a pool of blood below, the glass panes of his room’s window shattered. The cops later learnt that Arjun Bharadwaj is from Bangalore and his father is a businessman from the tech city.

The cops have found a suicide in his hotel room. “I am a drug addict and I don’t want to live anymore,” the note said. After which he is believed to have taken the fatal leap after breaking the glass panes of the window.

Security guards at the hotel heard a loud thud. Rushing to the site, they found the boy lying in a pool of blood. “The security guard informed the management of the hotel. They went on the 19 floor and saw that Bhardwaj had broken the window glass before taking the extreme step,” said a senior officer from Bandra police station.

“Bharadwaj had checked in the wee hours of Monday. No one saw his exit the hotel after that. We indentified the boy from the documents he had submitted during check-in. We have contacted his parents in Bangalore,” the police officer added. The cops took the body to Leelavati Hospital where he was declared brought dead.

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March 3,2020

Panipat, Mar 3: A 22-year-old man was charred to death after he came in contact with a live electricity wire while posing for a TikTok video near the Matlaudha railway station here, police said on Tuesday.

The incident took place on Monday evening when Vikas, a resident of Dharamgarh village, climbed a pole over which the wire was passing and posed for the video, police said.

His three friends were standing below when the accident took place.

Vikas came in contact with the wire carrying 25,000 volts current and was burnt, police said.

Police have sent the body for a post-mortem and started investigation into the matter.

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July 22,2020

Mathura, Jul 22: A local court in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura on Wednesday sentenced 11 policemen, including the then Deputy Superintendent of Police, to life imprisonment in a case pertaining to the murder of royal Raja Man Singh in 1985.

District Judge Sadhana Rani Thakur announced the life imprisonment sentence a day after holding them guilty of the killing. Three policemen were, however, acquitted. Four men died during the trial.

The policemen were convicted under Section 302 (murder), 148 (rioting) and 149 (Every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object) of the Indian Penal Code.

The verdict comes 35 years after Man Singh was killed. He, along with two others, was shot dead in police firing a day after he crashed his jeep into the then Rajasthan Chief Minister Shiv Charan Mathur's helicopter in a fit of anger.

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March 22,2020

Thane, Mar 22: Eight men were arrested at Kalyan in the district on Sunday as they were found playing cricket during the 'Janata curfew' being observed to check the spread of coronavirus, police said.

They were playing cricket at Kala Talao Maidan in the afternoon, police said.

Police also detained a boy in this connection, an official said.

"Action was taken against them for defying the prohibitory orders issued by the Thane Police Commissionerate.

They also went against the 'Janata curfew' being observed to curb the spread of coronavirus," the police official said.

The Mahatma Phule Chowk Police Station registered an offence against the accused under IPC sections 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant), 269 (negligent act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life), 290 (public nuisance).

They were also booked under the Maharashtra Police Act as well as the National Disaster Act 2005, the official said.

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