Pregnant woman dies after fight with husband over watching reels

Ara: A 22-year-old pregnant woman allegedly ended her life by consuming poison after her husband refused to give her his smartphone to watch videos and reels, exposing how deeply phone addiction has spread across society. The woman, mother of two children, died in Ara on Saturday, police said.The deceased, Parvati Devi, wife of Govind Mahto, was living with her husband’s family while Govind worked in Rajkot, Gujarat.A video purportedly recorded by Govind minutes before the incident has surfaced, showing the couple quarrelling over the cellphone. In the video, the woman is seen repeatedly demanding the phone and trying to snatch it from her husband’s hand, while Govind firmly refuses to give it to her.According to family members, the argument began in the morning and continued for several hours. Later, when Govind went out of the house, his in-laws informed him that his wife had consumed poison.She was immediately rushed to Sadar hospital, Ara, where doctors declared her brought dead.“We had a quarrel over the mobile phone in the morning. She was asking me to give her my mobile for watching videos. But I didn’t give her,” Govind told mediapersons at the hospital, where police had taken the body for post-mortem examination.Younger brother of the deceased, Dhannu Kumar, said, “Both my sister and her husband had been quarrelling over the mobile phone since morning. When my brother-in-law refused to give his mobile, my sister asked him to give her back the Rs 1,000 that she had given him to buy a bicycle at Rajkot where he works. I even advised him to give his mobile to my sister but he turned a deaf ear to my pleadings.”Police said no complaint or FIR had been lodged in the case so far. “An inquiry will be conducted after registration of a case of unnatural death under Section 194 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS),” SHO of Town police station, Devraj Rai, said.