Such a terrible case has come to light in Attibele near Bengaluru, the capital of Karnataka, which has completely put humanity to shame. A husband, who had vowed to stay together for seven lives, gave his wife an injection of mercury to kill her. After this step taken by the husband, a long battle started with the death of his wife Vidya and Vidya, who fought for her life for nine months, lost the battle with death.

Actually, this story is of 30-year-old Vidya, living under the area of ​​Attibele police station near Bengaluru. An ordinary housewife, but a woman in whose life a dreadful truth was hidden. Vidya had said in a statement given to the police before her death that her husband Basavaraj used to constantly taunt her by calling her crazy, keep her locked in the house and insult her. Not only this, along with her husband, her father-in-law Mariswamachari also used to torture Vidya.

Vidya had told that she had gone to sleep in her room on the night of 26th February, 2025 and she opened her eyes the next day in the evening of 27th February. When she regained consciousness, she felt severe pain in her thigh, as if someone had injected her. When her condition worsened and she reached the hospital, the examining doctor was shocked to see this heart-wrenching truth. Mercury was found in his body, which was slowly rotting his body parts.

Treatment continued for several months, but health did not improve.

After this terrible truth came to light, Vidya underwent treatment for a month at Oxford Hospital, then at Victoria Hospital. The doctor treating Vidya had said that the poison has spread throughout the body, the kidneys are also responding. After this dialysis started, but there was no improvement in Vidya’s health. Vidya kept fighting with death for her life for 9 months, kept on suffering, kept on bearing pain and then in the month of November, Vidya lost the battle of her life.

Police registered against husband and father-in-law FIR

Bengaluru’s Attibele police had registered an FIR against victim Vidya’s husband Baravaraj and father-in-law Mariswamachari on Sunday (November 23, 2025) after her statement. According to the FIR, Vidya was suffering from mercury poisoning in her body and her husband and father-in-law were accused of injecting mercury into her body with the intention of killing her. In this heart-wrenching case, a four-year-old innocent child lost his mother. At the same time, Vidya’s death has left a question before the society that, ‘If the husband becomes a murderer, then where will the wife go?’

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A Rapido bike taxi driver in Bengaluru has been accused of molestation by a female passenger. She alleges that the rider had tried to hold her legs during the ride. The woman made a video of this incident and later lodged a complaint with the police.

This incident happened on Thursday (November 6, 2025) at around 4 pm. Wilson Garden Police has registered an FIR in this matter and started investigation. The company has also issued a statement on this incident. Rapido has said, ‘Your safety and convenience is our biggest priority. Our team will contact you soon.

The woman narrated the entire incident in an Instagram post

When the driver of the Rapido bike taxi was trying to molest the woman, the woman protested against it, but the captain of the Rapido kept repeating his actions. After this, the woman shared a post on the social media platform Instagram and told about the entire incident. The woman said in the post, ‘When I was returning to my PG from Church Street, the captain (driver) of Rapido tried to hold my legs while riding the bike. All this happened so suddenly that I could not understand and did not even get time to record. When he did this again, I said brother, what are you doing, don’t do it, but instead of stopping, he did the same again.

The woman said she was in no position to ask the driver to stop the bike as she was at a new place and did not know which way she was on.

Unknown person came forward to help

The woman further said in the video, ‘When I reached my destination, an unknown person saw the situation and asked what happened. When I told him, he confronted the driver. After this, the driver of Rapido apologized to me and said that he will not do this again, but when he started leaving from there, he pointed his finger towards me, after this action of his I started feeling more insecure.

The woman said in her post, ‘I am sharing all this because no woman should have such an experience, neither in a cab, nor on a bike, nor anywhere. This is not the first time something like this has happened to me, but today I could not remain silent because I was feeling extremely unsafe and in a scary situation.

Company’s response to woman’s post

After the woman shared the post on Instagram, Rapido company has also responded. Rapido said, ‘We are extremely sorry to learn of the captain’s inappropriate behavior during your recent ride with us. Your safety and convenience is our biggest priority. Please give us some time to thoroughly investigate this matter. Our team will contact you soon, so that appropriate action can be taken against the Captain involved in this matter.

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