Tiffany Haddish Arrested For Second DUI In Less Than 2 Years
The "Girls Trip" actress was charged with DUI in Beverly Hills after performing at The Laugh Factory in West Hollywood.
Stand-up comedian Tiffany Haddish has been arrested on charges of driving under the influence, just hours after performing at a Thanksgiving evening event.
According to TMZ, the Girls Trip actress was charged with DUI in Beverly Hills after doing a show at The Laugh Factory in West Hollywood on Nov. 23. She was there for the venue’s 43rd annual free Thanksgiving feast. She allegedly was found sleeping at the wheel of her car.
The Beverly Hills Police Department stated that they received a phone call about someone slumped over their steering wheel with the car still running in the middle of the street at around 5:45 a.m. When officers arrived at the scene on Beverly Drive, they found Haddish there, placed her in handcuffs, and then arrested her.
This is not the first time she was involved in a scene similar to the morning of Nov. 24. In January 2022, the comedian was arrested for DUI when she was in Atlanta. The Peachtree City Police Department also received a phone call about someone sleeping behind the wheel of their vehicle. When they responded to the call and went to the area, they discovered Haddish going into a neighborhood. The police officers arrested her and charged her with DUI and improper stopping on a roadway.
In regard to the latest incident, she is slated to go to trial for that charge on Dec. 4.
This news takes place several days after she was handed a small victory in the lawsuit that her former friend, Trizah Morris, filed against her. Haddish requested that the lawsuit be heard in arbitration since Morris signed a non-disclosure agreement, and the judge granted Haddish her request.
Morris is suing Haddish for defamation. She claims that Aries Spears and Haddish defamed her publicly after her children successfully settled a sexual abuse case against them last September. After doing so, both comedians claim that Morris was trying to extort them. In February, Morris contacted their attorneys and requested they release a statement clearing her from the extortion claims. When they didn’t, she filed the current lawsuit.
Here is a Christmas present idea that you did not know you needed.
Hip-hop recording artist, Ice Spice can be in your home, well, sorta. The New York City-bred rapper has teamed up with Living Product to present her version of a Chia Pet, according to Complex.
“THE ICE SPICE CHIA PET BY LIVING PRODUCT
“LIMITED RUN AVAILABLE NOW ON LIVINGPRODUCT.WORLD AND AMAZON
The Chia Pet is available right now for $34.99 as the company has put out a call to all “munchkins.”
On the website, it states: “The superstar rapper’s iconic style is on full display as a terra cotta home planter, complete with pink jacket and her signature diamond chain. Just spread the seeds, water, and watch her grow leafy green hair!”
Complex reported that on the Ice Spice chia pet, the famous chia sprouts from the figurine will turn into her recognizable curly Afro. It is also embedded with the rapper’s iced-out chain and a pink hoodie.
“Like my lyrics say, ‘I’m breakin’ records and I’m breakin’ news,’” the 23-year-old said in a written statement. “I’m not sure who stole whose look, but I’m into it and am very excited about this fun partnership. Chia Pet is an iconic brand with a dope jingle—so we have that in common.”
The Ice Spice Chia Pet can also be purchased on Amazon.com and www.chia.com. Fans can also get the figurine on icespicemusic.com.
In September, the Bronx rapper collaborated with Dunkin Donuts to release the “Ice Spice Munchkin” drink. The signature drink was a blend of their frozen coffee with pumpkin munchkin donut hole treats infused with caramel drizzle and topped with whipped cream.
Tech’s Top Black Female Experts To Discuss Artificial Intelligence At Brookings Institute Panel
Some of the tech industry’s leading Black female AI experts will share their thoughts on the rise of AI.
This December, the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings Institute is hosting a panel called “Black women in AI: Building a More Inclusive and Equitable Future,” centering on increasing diversity in artificial intelligence.
On Dec. 4, some of the tech industry’s leading Black female AI experts will convene to share their thoughts on the rise of artificial intelligence and how to build a more equitable system.
The panel discussion, which will be moderated by Brookings Senior Fellow and CTI Director Nicol Turner Lee, will cover how to incorporate inclusivity into AI design. It will also discuss why vulnerable communities need to remain at the forefront of the conversation as the technology continues to advance.
The power of AI has only grown in recent years, prompting new guidelines and regulations in hopes of protecting consumer interests. On Oct. 30, President Joe Biden issued an executive implementing new standards of security with hopes of ensuring Americans’ right to privacy and protection. While the technology comes with its own risks for all parties, Black people are especially vulnerable.
Majority Senate Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) recently touched on this vulnerability in a Black Media Artificial Intelligence Pen and Pad session on Nov. 15, on the tail-end of his six-part AI Insight Forum. In the session, he expressed plans to expand protections for Black Americans as artificial intelligence progresses. “We are working on building guardrails to ensure transparency, to give workers a voice, and to ensure that the AI systems not only don’t increase the inequities in society but decrease them. It’s an opportunity as well as a challenge, and I want to take advantage of the opportunity,” he said. “We’ve seen lots of deep fakes, political ads, chat boxes. Black voters are among those who have been most targeted by this, so that’s something we’re particularly aware of.”
Still, artificial intelligence presents an unmatched opportunity for entrepreneurship and evolution. This panel will outline how diversity and equitable deployment of AI is vital to making that happen.
‘One Blood’ Is The Most Black And Beautiful Adoption Story You’ll Ever Read
Denene Millner is a veteran author who has written and collaborated on 31 critically acclaimed and bestselling books
New York Times Bestselling author Denene Millner is a consummate professional. It is evident in the 31 books she’s written to date, and the many books she’s published under her children’s imprint Denene Millner books. However, her latest work, One Blood is personal—and timely, with November being National Adoption Month.
One Blood, a tale of Black life, lineage, and love is loosely related to Millner’s real-life experience as an adoptee which she discovered when she was 12 years old. Though Millner grew up wrapped in the safety and security of her parents and never wanted for a thing—curiosity around her identity and origin grew. Millner had questions:
“One Blood was born of my dreams, of things that I always wanted to ask my mother that I couldn’t because she’s no longer with me in the physical realm,” told BLACK ENTERPRISE.
“I was just asking myself questions like, what is it that I wanted to know about Grace? Who is a teenage girl who gets pregnant and has her baby taken away? Like, what is it that I want to know about this woman? What is it that I want to know about Dolores? Who is the mother who adopts the baby that’s taken away from Grace? What are the questions that I have for this woman? Not just about raising this child, but what it’s like to kind of raise yourself in society that just grossly undervalues you or devalues you or doesn’t value you at all? And what is it like?”
Millner continued: “What was it that I wished I knew when I was a young reporter in the kind of pouring that into Ray, who is the child of Grace and Dolores, who becomes a mother in her own right. So, it was a lot of sitting around and just thinking and dreaming, literally dreaming and having these thoughts and these ideas come to me and jotting them down on notebooks and pieces of paper and back to envelopes and taking those notes and those thoughts and those questions and really kind of running them through the paces of me.”
For Millner, her own adoption story and who both her mothers were is directly tied to who she is as a Black woman, mother, daughter and partner. And out of that curiosity grew deeply complex characters and a riveting story that became the most important novel of her career.
BE obtained an excerpt that won’t disappoint:
PHOTO CREDIT: COURTESY OF DENENE MILLNER
Chapter 28
“You smell it?” Rae asked. “It’s been a while since he came, but he’s here again. For you and the baby. Maybe for me.”
“You used Daddy’s aftershave?” LoLo asked, completely misunderstanding what, precisely, was happening.
“No, Mommy,” Rae said gently. “That’s Daddy’s scent.” Rae looked into her mother’s eyes, her pupils piercing—her pupils saying exactly what LoLo needed to understand.
“He comes to you? Like this?”
“Sometimes it’s his scent I smell—the aftershave,” Rae said. “Some- times he comes to me in dreams. Once I woke up on a Sunday morning and smelled calf liver, plain as day. I jumped out of bed and raced into the kitchen and it was quiet and empty, everything in place. But it smelled like he was standing right there over the stove, cooking liver with that gravy I like, and rice. His favorite.
“I didn’t tell you,” Rae added, “because I thought . . . I thought you would think it was something evil.”
“You know I don’t believe in that hoodoo stuff. It’s not in the Bible and God’s word tells us not to worship false idols.”
“Mommy, I don’t have any control over this. I see things in my dreams all the time—have since I was little. I just never told you. I thought maybe I was evil or sinning against God because that’s what you raised us to believe. But you smell him, too. How can Daddy’s presence be evil?”
“Let me finish, Rae,” LoLo said, raising her hand to shush her daugh- ter. “I have something I need to show you. I’ll be right back,” she said.
LoLo disappeared back down the hall and reappeared just as quickly, with a small white pouch in her palm. She ran her thumbs over it slowly and stood there, her feet stuck to the linoleum Tommy had laid with his own hands when Rae was just a kid, dancing around on the other side of the kitchen threshold, regaling her father with a recap of her favorite book,
The Little Princess.
“This is yours,” LoLo said simply. She pressed it into Rae’s hands.
Rae looked quizzically at the pouch, then pulled it open. Her fingers touched the lock of hair first. She pulled out the bundle and her body tingled, like some electrical current gently shocking her system awake. She laid it on the table, and then the rabbit’s foot next to it, and then the pipe. She gasped when she pulled out the handkerchief and saw the blood-stained material between her fingertips. That, she dropped on the table, this time involuntarily, her hands shaking as she cocked her head to one side and then the other, washing over it with her watery eyes.
“There’s one more thing in there,” LoLo said quietly.
Rae hesitantly reached back into the pouch and pulled out the folded brown paper bag square. She slowly unfolded the paper and read its contents.
“What . . . what is this?” she asked, finally looking up.
LoLo searched for the words that fear—of what Tommy would think of this thing, of what God would think of this thing—had kept her from uttering over the past thirty-three years. Standing there, her daughter’s heart open wide, LoLo found the courage to pour in. “Your daddy didn’t want me to show this to you, but . . .” LoLo paused.
“Mommy. What is this?” Rae asked again, her heart racing as she rubbed the paper between her fingers and stared at the letters.
This baby This baby This baby a sweet, protected, prosperous life
“That was in the bag they found you in at that orphanage.” LoLo’s words, which she’d swallowed whole almost three and a half decades earlier, gushed from her throat. “I think your birth mother left it for you. See what this is?” she said, pointing to the circle of words on the paper. “It’s a wish, like a prayer. But the way they used to write them down in the old days, back in the South, when they believed in haints and roots and such. It’s a petition.”
“A . . . a what?”
“A petition. A prayer—for you, Rae. I think from your mother, asking for your protection,” LoLo said. “I think she wanted this to be with you. I think that’s what she hoped for you. Protection.
“Your daddy, he was your protector. He was my protector,” LoLo said. She rubbed Rae’s shoulders as she talked. “That’s all I required of him and he did that. He protected us. He found you in that basement and he is the one who made sure you were okay, even when it was me who was hurting you. He didn’t want me to give you this, because as far as he was concerned, we are your family and you were born the day we brought you home. We are your parents. Nothing else before that mattered to him. But this paper, this petition, he did what it asked of him. His presence here, right now, tells me he still is.”
Rae, overwhelmed by the idea that her birth mother wished the best for her, that she was holding her hair and blood in her hand, that her dead father was taking up space in the room in which she and her mother stood, just down the hall from where her baby was laying her head, took off running— out the kitchen, down the hall, to the bathroom, the scent following her as she moved. Rae slammed the door and slid down onto the bathmat, still wet with the water she’d just bathed her daughter in not an hour earlier.
Over the years, Rae had used her imagination to fill in her birth story with color and light and grace: Maybe my birth mother was young and scared and couldn’t fathom raising a baby on her own, was the first of her thoughts. Sometimes, the story had villains: Maybe she was forced to leave me on that stoop by a family that refused to support her and her child or Maybe she was in an abusive relationship and feared her baby would get swooped into the violence. The stories, they would be as varied as the books she’d tucked on the top shelf in her childhood closet. Always, though, Rae’s birth mom was the hero. Afterall, there were so many ways that life as a little, defenseless baby could have ended badly for her. But this woman, she earned her place on the pedestal Rae had tucked away in her heart and forever stood there, still, immovable, innocent, like the tiny ceramic angels LoLo kept on her glass étagère.
Now, her mother’s blood between her fingertips, her own baby just down the hallway, Rae regarded this woman as so much more than an inanimate object or some made-up fairy tale gathering dust on a shelf. Rae understood her humanity. Her decision, as far as Rae was concerned, was beautiful, selfless, steeped in pain, heartbreak, and yes, love—a love that she could now understand because she, too, was a mother who had carried her own baby in her womb and couldn’t fathom the strength and courage and resolve it must have taken for her birth mother to leave her child, her blood, the very beat of her heart, on a stoop for someone else—LoLo and Tommy, who loved her deeply—to have. To Rae, it was the ultimate sacrifice. A miracle, no different from the miracle of conception—what it took for sperm to meet egg and egg to attach to womb and for womb to maintain the absolute perfect conditions for new life and for new life to find its way to loving arms. The pouch was proof to Rae that she was exactly where she was supposed to be.
Rae held the paper to her heart and inhaled her father’s scent. “Daddy, I miss you. I love you. I love you. I love you and I miss you and I love you,” she said.
And then, for her mother, the one whose blood ran through her veins, she wailed …
According to Youth.Gov, the adoption theme for 2023 is “Empowering Youth: Finding Points of Connection.” In 400 words, One Bloodmanages to do this—and then some—with her young characters, as well as the adults.
Based on a 2020 study, roughly 100,000 children are adopted annually. Twenty-five percent of those children placed in permanent homes are Black. One of the biggest adoption myths is that birth mothers are young, misguided women. That is furtherest from the truth. According to Lifelong Adoptions, women well into their forties place children in adoption for myriad of reasons. The organization states that “almost all expectant mothers who are pursuing adoption are doing so because they want to give their baby a better opportunity for a life they deserve.”
New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist Denene Millner is a highly respected and sought-after writer, whose captivating books, columns, and essays have secured her place in the entertainment, parenting, book publishing, and social media worlds. Denene was chosen by Black Voices website as one of 40 Influential Black Female Writers in 2011 for good reason: she has had huge reach with dozens of novels, non-fiction titles, celebrity memoirs, and children’s books to her credit. A veteran author who has written and collaborated on 31 critically acclaimed and bestselling books, Millner is a prolific author whose work is in high demand. She is best known for co-authoring Steve Harvey’s two #1 New York Times bestsellers: Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, named the bestselling book of 2009 by Nielson, and Straight Talk, No Chaser. Both books became hit feature films—Think Like a Man and Think Like a Man Too. The original Lifetime movie With This Ring, based on Millner’s co-authored book, The Vow, debuted in January 2015. She is the co-author of Charlie Wilson’s memoir, I Am Charlie Wilson (2015), and Jessye Norman’s memoir, Stand Up Straight and Sing (2014). Memoirs she wrote with Cookie Johnson, Believing in Magic, and Taraji P. Henson, Around the Way Girl, appeared on the New York Times bestseller’s list simultaneously when they were released in fall 2016. In 2019, Millner penned Fresh Princess, a children’s picture book written with Will Smith and inspired by The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Cop Who Killed George Floyd Is Stabbed In Prison And The Internet Does Not ‘Give A Damn’
Bureau of Prisons did not confirm Chauvin as the victim of the jailhouse shanking, it did verify that an imprisoned individual was assaulted
Convicted cop Derek Chauvin was stabbed in Federal prison where he is currently serving two sentences for murdering George Floyd in 2020, and the internet does not give a damn.
An anonymous source told the Associated Press that the stabbing occurred on Nov. 25 at the Federal Correctional Institution, Tucson in Arizona. While the Bureau of Prisons did not confirm Chauvin as the victim of the jailhouse shanking, it did verify that an imprisoned individual was assaulted at the medium-security facility and transferred to an area hospital after receiving “life-saving measures” from prison employees — which suggests the killer cop may have been knifed pretty badly.
Upon hearing the news, social media celebrated Chauvin’s impaling.
Derek Chauvin, the murderer of George Floyd, was stabbed and nearly killed in Federal prison.
I don’t give a damn how much he suffers in the next 20 years. pic.twitter.com/tPyQmfcC9v
The comments showed quite the lack of empathy among X/Twitter users. One user referred to the stabbing as “Shanksgiving.” Another was more concerned with the status of the weapon and wanted to know if any harm had been done to the knife.
Floyd was murdered by Chauvin May 2020 after the latter kneeled on his neck and blocked his airway for over eight minutes. The police brutality was captured on cellphone and circulated through social and mass media causing a global uprising at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Beyoncé Makes Appearance During Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
She taped a video clip with a trailer of the upcoming "Renaissance."
Guess who made an appearance at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade?
That’s right, Beyoncé did.
In a video clip that was shared with viewers on Thanksgiving morning, the superstar introduced us to the latest trailer of her upcoming film, Renaissance. It was also posted to her Instagram account for her 318 million followers.
“Hey, it’s Beyoncé, wishing you and your family a very happy Thanksgiving. I’m so honored to share with you the first look at the new ‘Renaissance’ film trailer,” her post read.
According to People, the movie is slated to be released nationwide Dec. 1 with the Los Angeles premiere taking place Nov. 25 and the London premiere Nov. 30.
The film comes weeks after Taylor Swift’s concert film, The Eras Tour, made a fortune at the box office, a performance Bey’s film should easily replicate.
The film was recorded on her Renaissance World Tour, the highest-grossing tour for a woman ever since Billboard began recording concert sales for Boxscore in 1985. She set a monthly sales record in July when the tour grossed $127.6 million in ticket sales.
Not satisfied with that feat, she broke her own record in August when the tour made $179.3 million in ticket sales.
According to People, the movie “is about Beyoncé’s intention, hard work, involvement in every aspect of the production, her creative mind and purpose to create her legacy, and master her craft. Received with extraordinary acclaim, Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour created a sanctuary for freedom, and shared joy, for more than 2.7 million fans.”
Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour started overseas in Stockholm May 10, 2023, and ended in Kansas City, Missouri, Oct. 1. Live Nation stated that the Renaissance World Tour earned approximately $579 million at the box office.
Human Trafficking Operation Nets 26 Arrests, Including Pentagon Official
An undercover human trafficking operation resulted in the arrest of 26 individuals, among them Stephen Hovanic.
An undercover human trafficking operation conducted by the Coweta County (GA) Sheriff’s Office on Nov. 16 has resulted in the arrest of 26 individuals, among them Stephen Hovanic, the chief of staff for Defense Department schools in the United States, according toFOX 5 Atlanta.
The two-day operation aimed to combat human trafficking, but uncovered a web of illicit activities.
Hovanic, a 64-year-old resident of Sharpsburg, faces charges of pandering, a misdemeanor in Georgia. According to Stars and Stripes, he oversees children’s education within the Pentagon’s Defense Department schools.
Hovanic allegedly solicited sex from an undercover officer in a motel room specifically arranged for the operation. He said he believed he was procuring a massage, not engaging in illegal sexual activities with the woman.
The Coweta County Sheriff’s Office said charges against the 26 individuals including pandering, prostitution, and pimping.
According to deputies, six women were identified as victims of human trafficking and were offered help.
“The victims were taken to an undisclosed ‘safe house,’ where they will receive the help they need to move forward from the heinous crime of human trafficking,” Sgt. Toby Nix of the Coweta County Sheriff’s Office told The Newman Times-Herald. “All females contacted in this operation were offered the same assistance, with some refusing any aid. Pandering is not a victimless crime, as the demand for prostitution drives the sex trafficking market.”
Sheriff’s deputies emphasized that the human trafficking investigation remains ongoing, hinting at the possibility of additional arrests and charges.
Tyler Perry’s ‘Diary Of A Mad Black Woman’ Mansion Sold In Atlanta Auction
The mansion sits on 11.4 acres and features a massive, two-story primary bedroom suite.
The former home of filmmaker Tyler Perry now belongs to the highest bidder. The mansion depicted in his 2005 film Diary Of A Mad Black Woman was officially sold at an Atlanta auction on Nov. 19.
Platinum Luxury Auctions sold the home for an undisclosed price during the bidding. However, one can assume it was worth quite a bit, as the property spans over 11.4 acres and has been on the market for $6 million since Perry sold the mansion in 2018. The pristine home was featured on the auction company’s social media page, promoting its upcoming sale “without reserve.”
“The tri-level residence offers 16,500 sf of living space, with six beds, seven full and one half bath,” detailed a press release on the high-profile abode. “Designed in the style of the grand manors of the European countryside, the property features a central, neatly manicured parcel in the shape of a lengthy rectangle, surrounded by a perimeter of dense, mature landscaping for added privacy.”
The president and founder of Platinum, Trayor Lesnock, also explained more of the “peaceful setting” within the home.
“Arriving at the property is like being transported somewhere in the western European countryside,” said Lesnock. “It’s such a peaceful setting with a beautiful, natural surround. Mr. Perry had a keen eye in selecting the parcel.”
Some of the home’s most notable features are the massive two-story bedroom suite, which covers almost 4,000 square feet, and the fenced tennis court with stadium-standard lighting. The property itself is located in Chattahoochee Hills, less than 30 minutes outside the city of Atlanta.
While Perry has not been the owner or resident for the past five years, the home is still reminiscent of his standout works, with its new owners now holding a part of Black cinematic history.
Binance CEO Steps Down Amid $4.3 Billion Settlement
The CEO of Binance, the renowned global cryptocurrency exchange, is set to step down following the company's admission of guilt.
The CEO of Binance, the renowned global cryptocurrency exchange, is set to step down following the company’s admission of guilt on Nov. 21. Binance has pleaded guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act, an anti-money laundering law, and other charges, resulting in a settlement of over $4.3 billion, according to NBC News. This fine stands as the largest penalty ever imposed by the Treasury Department, marking a pivotal moment in the realm of digital currencies.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen condemned Binance for its “consistent and egregious violations of U.S. anti-money laundering and sanctions laws” in prepared remarks. The Justice Department, in a news release, detailed that Changpeng Zhao, the CEO, has pleaded guilty not only to these charges but also for failing to uphold an effective anti-money laundering program. Consequently, Zhao will relinquish his role as chief executive.
As part of the settlement, Zhao has accepted a $50 million fine, underscoring the gravity of the violations. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland emphasized the enormity of the situation, stating, “Binance became the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange in part because of the crimes it committed — now it is paying one of the largest corporate penalties in U.S. history.”
Confirming his departure, Zhao took to the platform X, expressing his acknowledgment of mistakes and paving the way for Richard Teng, Binance’s head of regional markets, to assume the role of CEO. Zhao reassured stakeholders that, despite his exit from the chief executive position, he would remain a shareholder and offer consultative support to the leadership team. He also emphasized that the charges did not involve any allegations of misusing customer funds or engaging in market manipulation.
The settlement terms also mandate Binance to submit to oversight by a third-party monitor, administered by the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. This external monitor will scrutinize Binance’s systems, transactions, and accounts to ensure compliance with federal regulations.
In response, Binance released a blog post taking responsibility for its mistakes and expressing optimism about the company’s future. The post stated, “These resolutions acknowledge our company’s responsibility for historical, criminal compliance violations, and allow our company to turn the page on a challenging yet transformative chapter of learning and growth.”
This adds to the recent turbulence in the cryptocurrency world, marked by the collapse of major exchanges. Despite this, the value of Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency, has surged over the past year, trading at around $37,000 as of Tuesday.
These guilty pleas follow closely on the heels of legal troubles for Zhao’s crypto counterpart, Sam Bankman-Fried, indicating a heightened scrutiny of white-collar cryptocurrency crime by the government. The message is clear: utilizing new technology to break the law does not confer disruptor status but rather criminal liability, as highlighted by Attorney General Garland.
Man Allegedly Kills Wife and Child With Deadly Cobra In India
On Oct. 6 the man allegedly killed his wife and two-year-old daughter by unleashing a venomous cobra into their room.
On Oct. 6, K Ganesh Patra, 25, was accused of killing his wife and two-year-old daughter by unleashing a venomous cobra into their room, according toTheDaily Mail.
Ganesh Patra and his wife, K Basanti Patra, 23, were embroiled in a marital dispute. The couple, married in 2020, shared their home with their daughter, Debasmita in Adheigaon, a village in the state of Odisha in India.
According to reports from NDTV, Ganesh allegedly purchased the venomous cobra from a local snake charmer, claiming it was for religious purposes. He allegedly released the deadly snake into his wife and daughter’s room.
The following day, Basanti and Debasmita’s lifeless bodies were discovered with snake bites. Ganesh, asserting he slept in another room, informed neighbors about the snake’s intrusion and the tragic outcome.
The villagers, in response, killed the snake and rushed the victims to a nearby hospital, where they were pronounced dead. Ganesh filed a police complaint, leading to the registration of a case of unnatural death.
However, as inquiries progressed, Ganesh’s father-in-law accused him of murder. A month after the incident, Ganesh was apprehended by the authorities. Superintendent of Police Jagmohan Meena explained the delay, stating, “There was some delay in gathering evidence against him.”
As suspicions mounted, police turned their attention to local snake charmers. Ganesh initially refuted the accusations but reportedly confessed to the crime during police interrogation.
Superintendent Meena revealed, “During interrogation, he initially denied the allegation and later claimed that the snake might have entered the room on its own, but eventually confessed to committing the crime.”
The post-mortem report further fueled suspicions, questioning how the snake remained in the room for several hours after the fatal bites occurred during the late hours of Oct. 6.
