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Delhi Suicide Case: Leena Khattar, Puneet Khurana’s sister, claimed that the businessman’s bank account was hacked by his wife. She also abused his parents.
Manika Pahwa’s husband, 40-year-old businessman Puneet Khurana, died by suicide on New Year’s Eve.
Manika Pahwa, accused of harassing her husbandposted a cryptic message on social media less than a week before her spouse died by suicide at his residence in northwest Delhi’s Model Town. Asserting that “feminism suits her”, the woman alleged that she had suffered “toxicity and narcissistic” abuse.
Pahwa’s husband, 40-year-old businessman Puneet Khurana, was hanging in his room in Model Town’s Kalyan Vihar area on New Year’s Eve. The couple, co-owners of the popular Woodbox Cafe in Delhi, were going through a divorce.
Several media houses claimed to have accessed her post on her Instagram account, which is now deleted.
“Well feminism suits me, as idealistic values are my core & feminism means giving & getting mere respect. To one another. No slave treatment, and no stopping some girl to speak her mind,” Pahwa reportedly wrote on Instagram six days before Khurana died.
“Even a house help, guard, rikshawala, a tiny kid deserves respectful treatment. Once a coward fought with me that ‘respect has to be earned’. Ufff! What disgrace na? I disagree, respect has to be given to each and everyone. If not then you lost the respect baby. Phew! Maybe that’s why in India, we address people with ‘aap’, ‘bhaiya’, ‘didi’ to even strangers, isn’t it?” NDTV and Republic quoted Pahwa’s Instagram post.
Pahwa further referred to her “abusers” as “insecure cowards”, and said that virtues like kindness and love are more important than money.
“I just wish these abusers get to see the mirror someday and understand..that kindness, love, understanding, trust,wisdom, affection & care all are true virtues & hold much more importance than money,property & gold. God bless the unkind ones. 🙂 I know nobody can change, but let’s just pray, nobody else should suffer because of some bunch of insecure cowards. My tribe, pray with me..okay? 🙂 love you all… I am free, and the beautiful ruins are part of me,” she was quoted.
Manika Pahwa ‘Hacked’ Husband’s Account, Threatened To ‘Jail Parents’
Leena Khattar, Khurana’s sister, claimed that the businessman’s account was hacked by his wife. “There is a video recording of around 59 minutes, in which Puneet has mentioned details of harassment he faced,” she said.
A report by Republic Media Network quoted Leena Khattar as saying, “His wife hacked his Instagram account and behaved badly, which led my brother to call her at 3 in the morning. When he called her, she responded by asking what do you want.”
The report further quoted Khattar and stated despite the businessman speaking to Pahwa “kindly”, she “continued to abuse him“.
“She threatened to have his parents jailed and then told him, ‘you always say you’ll die, but you never do. If you’re so bold, then die’. She pushed my brother to such an extreme level with her words,” Khattar was quoted.
The businessman’s brother-in-law, Sumit, claimed that Khurana recorded a 59-minute video before taking his life, detailing the alleged harassment. The video has been circulating on social media.
A report in Times of India quoted an officer as saying that in the purported audio clip of a conversation between the couple, the man claims that his account was hacked, but the woman denies this.
“She then asserts that she remains his business partner and demands that he settles the dues. The conversation also touches on other business-related disagreements,” the officer was quoted.
The report further stated that the woman alleged her husband repeatedly disgraced her and her family, but when confronted, he asked her to specify what she wanted.
Laws To Protect Women Being Misused?
The incident days after AI engineer Atul Subhash’s suicide galvanised men’s rights activists and started a wider debate around and started a wider debate around misuse of laws by women.
Subhash, the 34-year-old deputy general manager at a private firm, was found dead in his apartment on December 9, leaving a 81-minute video and a 24-page note detailing harassment by his wife and in-laws.
In the note prepared by the AI engineer before dying by suicide, he detailed two alleged conversations with his wife Nikita Singhania and mother-in-law Nisha Singhania that drove him to the edge. In one of them, he alleged, his mother-in-law asked, “You haven’t died by suicide yet? I thought I would get the news today.”
His death led to debate around the tough dowry law which was designed to protect women from harassment and even murder. While Singhania accused Subhash and his family of harassing her for dowry, many argued that with cases of divorce steadily rising, the law is now being misused by women to harass their husbands, even forcing them to kill themselves.
A report in BBC stated that India’s top court has also weighed in, with one judge describing it as “legal terrorism” that was “intended to be used as a shield and not as an assassin’s weapon”.
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