Nirupama's boyfriend is charged with rape

In a new twist in the case of Nirupama Pathak, the young journalist who was found dead at her parent's home in Koderma, the police have booked the girl's boyfriend Priyabhanshu for abetment to suicide and have questioned him. Priyabhanshu now has to fight to keep himself out of jail.

This after Nirupama's parents approached the Koderma court to file a case against him.

This morning the court, ordered the Jharkhand police to charge Priyabhanshu Ranjan with rape, cheating and abetment of suicide of Nirupama, the woman Priyabhanshu Ranjan wanted to marry.
It's a bizarre turn of events since just five days back the police had ruled out the possibility of suicide and arrested Nirupama Pathak's mother on charges of murder.
The case was registered on the basis of the postmortem report that said Nirupama died of smothering and her body was hung after she died.
Nirupama was then believed to have been killed for defying her family and wanting to marry a boy outside her caste.
"There are no external injury marks on her which means that she was probably pinned down by a few people and then smothered," said P Mohan, Civil Surgeon, Koderma.

Nirupama's mother Sudha Pathak is still in custody and last night the police seized Priyabhanshu's mobile and laptop and Nirupama's diary from her flat in Delhi, sources say they wanted a sample of handwriting to match it with the suicide note.
So, is the police going back on their claim that Nirupama was murdered by her own family.
"I am scared for my life," says Priyabhanshu