Domestic fury exploded into murder in Bihar’s Vaishali when a man slew his wife by garroting her before their boy’s terrified eyes. The catalyst: persistent rows over her reel-making on social media. Eerily, Anjali had shared a foreboding video just a day before, begging for solidarity against impending doom.
The 32-year-old from Pusa, Samastipur, had eloped with Kundal Sah via Facebook five years ago—her sophomore shot at matrimony post two sons from before. Dawn broke with ominous temple sounds in Neerpur, revealing Kundal’s lethal grip on Anjali’s neck with a plastic rope, as per the traumatized child.
Her last post echoed despair: ‘If he murders me, stand by me. This visible plea— he’s beggared me, left me famished while indulging himself.’ Arrest followed swiftly for Kundal; the weapon was recovered nearby. Relatives implicate his household in the slaying.
Not new to strife, Anjali’s 2023 legal action had incarcerated him once. Patepur cops processed the site, postmortem underway. This grim episode exposes the toxic brew of jealousy, control, and online expression, calling for societal and systemic safeguards against such intimate terrors.