A 20-year-old nursing student, Fousia was found dead at a hotel in Chennai. Her lifeless body’s image as the WhatsApp status of her boyfriend triggered an alarm among their mutual friends, who informed the Chromepet police.
The police searched the area and found the body at a hotel on CLC Works Road in Chromepet, a TOI report mentioned. Fousia, a second-year nursing student at a college in Chromepet, was staying in a hostel at New Colony. She had not been to college for the last three days.
The hotel staff told the police that Fousia and her boyfriend, 20-year-old Ashiq, from Kollam in Kerala, had checked in at 10.30 am.
Police scoured the CCTV camera footage in the area and arrested Ashiq from an eatery nearby.
As per the preliminary investigation, the couple, after checking into the hotel got into an argument as Fousia questioned Ashiq about photos of him and another woman on his phone.
In response, Ashiq hit Fousia and strangled her to death with his t-shirt, after which, he uploaded the photo of her body as his Whatsapp status, police said. Some of Fousia’s friends at the college, who also had his number, saw the photo around 5:00 pm and informed the police.
According to police, the couple had been in a relationship for five years and had married secretly. They even had a baby who they had given up for adoption in Chikamagalur.
The couple had parted ways two years ago when Fousia came to know about Ashiq’s affairs with several other women. She also filed a complaint with Kerala police, who booked him under the Pocso Act and sent him to jail. Soon after he was released, he apologised and the couple got back together. Since then, he visited her often.
Fousia’s body was sent for a postmortem to Chromepet government hospital. An investigation into the case is underway.
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