A heart-wrenching incident was reported in Tamil Nadu where a woman jumped off ahead of a moving bus after getting misleading information from someone that her family would receive Rs 45,000 in case she died in an accident.

In the video, a mother killed herself by jumping in front of the moving bus to arrange money for her son’s education. Reportedly, a woman was a safai karmachari at the collector’s office in the Salem district of Tamil Nadu, the report said.  

The woman made this fatal sacrifice because she was in need of money to pay her son’s college fees, so she decided to end her life to get the compensation of Rs 45,000.

The video has moved people. The internet users have expressed their grief and anguish over the incident. Netizens questioned and showed their anguish towards the situation that led a mother to kill herself for paying the education fees of her son.

The incident also exposed how people face difficulties who try to make their children’s lives better by educating them. Many people said that true development would mean that no one is forced in that situation to take such a step.

As per the police, a 46-year-old deceased woman was identified as Papathy, a resident of Salem district who was working as a sanitary worker in the Collector’s office. She had lost her husband long before and was a single mother parent to a daughter and a son. Papathy died after she came into a speeding that killed her at second Agraharam street in Salem. The police have registered a case, and an investigation is underway.

After inspecting the CCTV footage, the police were shocked to know that this was the woman’s second attempt to kill herself, Papathy had earlier attempted to jump before a moving bus but she could not succeed after a two-wheeler hit before she could fall into a bus. After a while, she repeated the act when another bus approached her. The entire episode was caught on camera, as per the reports.

An incident of molestation with an Army jawan’s wife came to light when an Army man who is currently posted in Kashmir, released a video message pleading for police action against the alleged attackers of his wife.  

The Indian Army on Sunday put out a statement saying it got in touch with the police administration and assured proper investigation into the alleged molestation of jawan’s wife by 40 people in Tamil Nadu.

However, the Tamil Nadu Police has contradicted the claims by the Army personnel that his wife was stripped half naked and beaten by men in the state. Officials in the state are aware about the matter as per the report.

According to report, the jawan’s wife alleged that she was attacked and molested by more than 40 people. They verbally abused her using vulgar language. They also touched her inappropriately. They were not letting her family live in peace. They were threatening her, she said in Vellore on Sunday.

The police said their initial investigation shows that no one has attacked or insulted the jawan’s wife. The case is more of a dispute over a land lease between the soldier’s wife and some men. The police also said the department has given protection to her and observed that the video message released by the soldier has been exaggerated.

The havildar rank jawan from Thiruvannamalai district had released a video on June 10, speaking in Tamil that went viral on social media after a retired Army officer Colonel N Thiagarajan shared it on Twitter. Talking to reporter, the Thiruvannamalai SP said an FIR was registered under relevant sections on a complaint lodged by the jawan. The two accused Ramu and Hariprasad have already been arrested.

The Indian Army said the well-being of families of army personnel are their priority, who stay away from the soldiers deployed in field areas.

The Indian Army’s Northern Command issues their statement, an Indian Army soldier in uniform gave a statement fearing for the safety of his family. Army has already contacted the Police authorities who have assured all help post-investigation.  

Tamil Nadu BJP president Annamalai also said he has spoken to the jawan on call, posted in Kashmir and he was ashamed to hear such incident on the soil of Tamil Nadu. He assured all the help to the jawan’s wife to get justice in this case.

On Friday, the Income Tax Department carried out raids at 40 different locations linked to Tamil Nadu Minister V Senthil Balaji.

As per reports, the raids were conducted in 40 locations at premises, offices of government contractors having their association with Minister Balaji. The raids also include relatives of Balaji.

The searches were carried in Karur, Coimbatore and other cities, said reports.

V Senthil Balaji is the state’s Electricity Minister and is strongman of MK Stalin’s DMK from Karur. Balaji also holds the portfolio of Prohibition and Excise.

Meanwhile, clashes broke out between DMK party workers and IT officials who arrived at Balaji’s brother Ashok’s premises in Karur to conduct the searches.

The officials were allegedly asked to produce their ID cards and were questioned, party workers gathered in large numbers prevented the officials from doing their works and raised slogans.

Reports said, some also vandalised the authorities official vehicle breaking the mirror and windshield.

The raids come at a time when Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin is out on an official foreign tour.

The Supreme Court also had recently ordered a fresh inquiry against Minister Balaji and two others in connection to an alleged job recruitment scam in the state.

As per reports, Balaji has been accused of taking bribes from job aspirants in exchange of their recruitment in the state transport corporation between 2011 and 2015.

The opposition in the other hand has been making demands to remove Balaji from the state cabinet following the recent hooch tragedy in the state which took down the lives of 20 individuals.

A BJP delegation led by state president K Annamali had earlier also met  Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi handing over a petition demanding dismissal of Balaji as a Minister for his alleged involvment in the cash for jobs scam.