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The letter, scrawled in large, untidy handwriting, was hotly disputed: prime suspect and Narendra Giri’s former disciple, Anand Giri, claimed what other sants also said - the mahant was not literate enough to write such a long letter – and who pens eight pages before death by suicide? ( Aaj Tak). Its ‘5 pages’ ( India TV) on Monday became ‘8 panne’ by the time ABP News revealed it late Tuesday afternoon. The ‘suicide note’ became the focus of the ‘investigation’ by the police and news channels.
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We were told the mahant had been found hanging, in his room, the door was locked from inside-mercifully, no one leaked footage of the nylon rope, the room or the bed as they had in the Sushant Singh Rajput case, although NewsNation did wonder why his body was taken down before the police had arrived.Īlso read: Video game, fake visuals - It’s a bad week for TV news. Over three days, news, clues and questions flew thick and fast across channels while we watched visuals of the mahant’s body lying in a vast ice box as people paid their respects to him. There was even the guest mention of a nylon rope, apparently used in the death-who bought it and when, asked Bharat Samachar.Īlso read: ‘Abba jaan’ politics delights Indian news channels, dying kids in UP an afterthoughtĪll of this brought out the best and worst in headlines - ‘ Hatya ya atmahatya’ asked ABP News, ‘Atmahatya ya kya’, inquired Zee News, ‘Sant, suicide aur shishya’, ‘ Sant, suicide aur sawaal’ was on Times Now Navbharat, ‘ Maut, mahant aur mystery’ was Republic Bharat’s offering while ‘ Suicide ya saazish’ appeared on India TV and ‘Baba baba aur blackmailer’ on News 18 India. How’s that for alliteration? The mysterious affair at the Baghdambri matt has everything the channels could want: an eminent seer, a death by hanging, which could be a murder (‘ Maut ya Murder’ asked several channels) a suicide note, a video recording, a prime suspect (Anand Giri) and his accomplices, blackmail, property disputes, politicians, money, and perhaps even women.īut it was the last rites that took up most TV time on Wednesday with exotic long-haired sants and gurus, some bedecked in maalas, at every turn. The news was simply too unusual to resist - when was the last time a revered religious leader reportedly killed himself and wrote a death bed letter that named names? So news channels jumped in feet first, indulged every whim and fancy surrounding ‘ Maut ki Mystery’ ( News 24) with their super sleuth reporting team sniffing around for (news) leads. Suddenly, a news flash had them wide-eyed and agog - Mahant Narendra Giri had died and left behind a ‘suicide note’ (why must Hindi channels strain our eyes by spelling out English words in Devnagiri script?) It was a sleepy Monday evening and Hindi TV news channels were distracted, divided between admiration for the Congress’ ‘masterstroke’ ( Aaj Tak) in appointing a Dalit Sikh chief minister in Punjab and bewilderment at the continuing divisions within the party - ‘disaster after disaster’, gloated Republic TV.