Nirupama Pathak

A local court on Saturday issued warrants against the boyfriend, father and brother of Delhi-based journalist Nirupama Pathak in connection with her death on April 29 last year under mysterious circumstances.Chief Judicial Magistrate, N K Agarwal, issued the warrant, four days after the police submitted before the court that it was a case of suicid...

When a young journalist named Nirupama Pathak was found dead in her home in Jharkhand, India was forced to re-evaluate its understanding of honour killings. Nirupama was a bright 22-year-old working with a business newspaper in New Delhi.  The fact that her city life, profession and education at a premier college in Delhi had not helped h...

When Nirupama Pathak died at her home in Jharkhand in the last week of April, her family claimed that it had found the 22-year-old journalist hanging from a fan in her bedroom. A suicide note was furnished; the date on it had been scribbled over. Later, police would question the authenticity of the letter. Till earlier this week, the Jharkhand...

When Nirupama Pathak left Koderma - a remote mining region - for graduate school in New Delhi, she seemed to be leaving the old India for the new. Her parents paid her tuition and did not resist when she wanted to choose her own career. But choosing a husband was another matter.Her family was Brahmin, the highest Hindu caste, and when Ms Pathak, 22...

A week after she was sent to jail on charges of killing her daughter, Sudha Pathak is out on a three-day parole to attend the last rites of Nirupama - a Delhi-based journalist.

A new twist in the case of Nirupama Pathak, the young journalist who was found dead at her parent's home in Koderma, the police have booked the girl's boyfriend Priyabhanshu for abetment to suicide and have questioned him.

A 10 to 12 week-old foetus was found during autopsy of the Delhi-based journalist Nirupama Pathak, whose death at her home at Tilaya near Koderma is being suspected as a case of honour killing, Koderma civil surgeon B Mohan said on Wednesday.

The police are now trying to determine whether Nirupama Pathak, a journalist in Delhi, was a victim of honour killing by her family in Jharkhand.

A Delhi journalist has been killed allegedly for falling in love with a man outside her caste. Her parents are the main suspects.

A local court on Saturday issued warrants against the boyfriend, father and brother of Delhi-based journalist Nirupama Pathak in connection with her death on April 29 last year under mysterious circumstances.Chief Judicial Magistrate, N K Agarwal, issued the warrant, four days after the police submitted before the court that it was a case of suicid...

When a young journalist named Nirupama Pathak was found dead in her home in Jharkhand, India was forced to re-evaluate its understanding of honour killings. Nirupama was a bright 22-year-old working with a business newspaper in New Delhi.  The fact that her city life, profession and education at a premier college in Delhi had not helped h...

When Nirupama Pathak died at her home in Jharkhand in the last week of April, her family claimed that it had found the 22-year-old journalist hanging from a fan in her bedroom. A suicide note was furnished; the date on it had been scribbled over. Later, police would question the authenticity of the letter. Till earlier this week, the Jharkhand...

When Nirupama Pathak left Koderma - a remote mining region - for graduate school in New Delhi, she seemed to be leaving the old India for the new. Her parents paid her tuition and did not resist when she wanted to choose her own career. But choosing a husband was another matter.Her family was Brahmin, the highest Hindu caste, and when Ms Pathak, 22...

A week after she was sent to jail on charges of killing her daughter, Sudha Pathak is out on a three-day parole to attend the last rites of Nirupama - a Delhi-based journalist.

A new twist in the case of Nirupama Pathak, the young journalist who was found dead at her parent's home in Koderma, the police have booked the girl's boyfriend Priyabhanshu for abetment to suicide and have questioned him.

A 10 to 12 week-old foetus was found during autopsy of the Delhi-based journalist Nirupama Pathak, whose death at her home at Tilaya near Koderma is being suspected as a case of honour killing, Koderma civil surgeon B Mohan said on Wednesday.

The police are now trying to determine whether Nirupama Pathak, a journalist in Delhi, was a victim of honour killing by her family in Jharkhand.

A Delhi journalist has been killed allegedly for falling in love with a man outside her caste. Her parents are the main suspects.