A 30-year-old woman named Geeta Sharma, working as a property dealer, was found injured and unconscious in Lucknow. She was later declared dead. Her brother accused her live-in partner, Girija Shankar, of murder, citing a Rs 1 crore insurance policy with Girija as the nominee. Police are investigating whether her death was accidental or a brutal murder.
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AAP MP Swati Maliwal was detained by police for allegedly parking garbage trucks near the former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal's residence. Earlier, Maliwal visited Vikaspuri's garbage dump to protest against the city's sanitation issues and planned to take the rubbish to Kejriwal's residence.
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