Struggling actor’s decomposed body found in Mumbai, murder suspected
The Amboli police investigating the death of struggling TV actor Kritika Chaudhary are treating it as a murder case and are on the lookout for two men who visited her last week.
Chaudhary was living on rent in a building in Four Bungalows area of Andheri (west).
According to the police, they received a call from a resident of the same building at 3.15pm on Monday, complaining of a foul stench emanating from the actor’s flat.
The cops rushed to the spot, broke her ventilator window and saw her lying unconscious on the bed. The door was locked from the outside.
A police source from the investigation team said, “When we entered, we saw her half naked. The upper part of her body was on the bed and her legs were hanging down. She was wearing a night dress but her lower body was uncovered. Her face was covered with cloth and we suspect it may have been used to smother her.”
He added, “She had a head injury and may have been assaulted. We are treating it as a murder case but things will be clear after the post mortem report comes from the Cooper hospital. As of now, we do not see any signs of robbery. We are trying to find out if she had a personal enmity with anyone.”
The police have recorded the statement of the watchman who said he saw two men entering the building with Chaudhary at around 2.30am on June 7 or 8. Police are sifting through the footage collected from CCTV cameras outside her building.
Chaudhary came to Mumbai a few years ago and has appeared in small roles on TV.
Her neighbours remember her as a religious person who loved her family.
A neighbour who helped her get accommodation in the building said, “She was a religious and god-fearing person. She believed in Shankar bhagwan and went to the temple every week.”
Obesity in India more than doubled in children and tripled in adults between 1980 and 2015, shows an analysis of data from 195 countries from the Global Burden of Disease Study.
According to the study published in the latest issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, India’s 180 million adults, including 14.4 million children between the ages of two and 19 years, are obese.
Overweight and obese children rose from 1.3% in 1980 to 3% in 2015.
The corresponding rise in men was from 1% to close to 5%, and from 2% to 7% in women.
“The rate at which obesity is growing in children is quite alarming as it means we will be faced with a large number of obese adults, prone to non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and even certain types of cancer,” said Dr VK Bahl, head of cardiology department at AIIMS.
India’s National Family Health Survey-4 (NFHS-4), which is a pan-India survey that provides information on population, health and nutrition, shows 2.8% of the women surveyed had very high blood sugar levels.
In men, the figure was 3.8%.