Man kills girlfriend in hotel, posts her body as WhatsApp status
According to police, the two had been in a relationship for five years and were secretly married. They had a baby in their late teens and had given the child up for adoption in Chikamagalur.
Chennai: A 20-year-old nursing student was found dead in a hotel in Chennai. Her lifeless body got the WhatsApp status of her boyfriend, who murdered his ‘secretly married wife’ in Chromepet area of Chennai. Seeing the status of suspect Ashiq, also in his 20s, triggered their common friends who alerted the Chromepet police. Police searched all lodges and hotels in the area and found the body at a hotel on CLC Works Road in Chromepet.
According to the hotel staff, victim Fousia and Ashiq both belong to Kollam in Kerala and had checked into the hotel around 10.30 am. According to the preliminary investigation, after checking into the hotel, the couple got into an argument when Fousia questioned Ashiq about photos of him and another woman on his phone.
In response, Ashiq hit Fousia and strangled her with his T-shirt before uploading the photo of her body as his WhatsApp status, police said. Some of Fousia’s friends in college, who also had his number, saw the photo around 5 pm and alerted the police, according to a report in TOI.
According to police, the two had been in a relationship for five years and were secretly married. They had a baby in their late teens and had given the child up for adoption in Chikamagalur. Fousia was a second-year nursing student at a college in Chromepet and staying at a hostel in New Colony. She had not been to college for the past three days.
The couple had separated two years ago when Fousia came to know about Ashiq’s affairs with several other women. She also filed a complaint with the Kerala police, who booked him under the Pocso Act and sent him to jail. Shortly after he was released, he apologized and the couple got back together. Since then he often visited her.
Fousia’s body was sent to Chromepet government hospital for an autopsy. The case is currently under investigation.