In the note said to have been left by Lathar, he made serious allegations against a senior police officer, who himself had died by suicide recently—IPS officer Y Puran Kumar.

Since the alleged offence took place in 2005, the law applicable was the pre-2017 exception, which protected a husband from the charge of rape if his wife was above 15 years of age

Russia, China, Iran and North Korea have sharply increased their use of artificial intelligence to deceive people online and mount cyberattacks against the United States, according to new research from Microsoft.