Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Congress MLA and former state forest minister Umang Singhar was charged with abetment of suicide on Monday after a 40-year-old woman was found dead at his bungalow in Bhopal on Sunday.
According to police, Umang Singhar was charged with attempting suicide under Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) based on his recorded conversations/chat history with the woman and her son’s comment.
Bhopal’s deputy inspector general of police, (DIG), said the woman and the MLA had planned to get married but she decided to end her life instead due to regular fights with the politician.
“The woman had been living in the MLA’s bungalow for the past 20 days while he was visiting his assembly constituency of Gandhwani in Dhar district,” additional superintendent of police (ASP) Rajesh Bhadoriya said.
He added that the house help employed at the Congress leader’s Shahpura bungalow first discovered the body and informed the police. Police claimed it recovered a suicide note from the woman’s articles accusing Singhar of anger issues and lack of clarity on some matters.
The woman’s 20-year-old son, her mother, and the Congress leader all made statements that were registered.
Her widowed mother met Singhar on a matrimonial website in September of last year, and the two agreed to marry, according to her son. In December of last year, there was an engagement ceremony.
