Man Chokes Wife To Death For Spending Too Much Time Making Social Media Reels

A man in India has been arrested for murdering his wife after being upset with her for spending too much time making reels on social media platforms, reports said.

Amirthalingam, 38, allegedly choked his wife, identified as Chithra, to death in Tirupur, a city in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, on Sunday night, news outlet India Today reported.

Investigators found out that Amirthalingam had frequent fights with his wife, complaining that she was spending too much time on social media making reels. However, two months back, Chithra, who had more than 33.3K followers on her Instagram account, decided to pursue her career in acting and left for Chennai, a city 285 miles away from her hometown.

Chithra came back to her hometown last week to attend her daughter's wedding and was getting ready to leave. However, Amirthalingam didn't want her to leave and confronted her over her habit of making reels for social media, leading to an argument between the couple. During the heated argument, Amirthalingam allegedly strangled his wife with a piece of cloth and she fell unconscious.

After the assault, Amrithalingam left the scene and told his daughter that he had struck Chithra. The daughter alerted the cops who recovered the body of the victim.

Amrithalingam was taken into custody after an autopsy confirmed that Chithra was strangled to death, news outlet India Posts reported.

In an unrelated incident, a 24-year-old woman from the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh was arrested for allegedly attacking her two brothers after they objected to her making Instagram reels. The suspect, identified as Aarti Rajput, allegedly attacked her brothers Jaikishan and Akash after the latter questioned her about her social media addiction. When cops called Aarti to the police station based on the complaints from the brothers, she attacked Akash again in front of the cops and manhandled female deputies who tried to intervene. According to her brothers, Aarti has been acting weird and neglecting her family due to her addiction to social media, police said.