A schoolteacher in eastern India stabbed to death a regional legislator in Bihar state seven months after alleging the politician and his secretary had raped her, police said. Raj Kishore Keshari, a lawmaker belonging to Bihar's ruling BJP party, died in hospital in the state's Purnia town after the 45-year-old woman stabbed him with a knife, senior police officer P.K. Thakur said.
"Rupam Pathak had come to meet Keshari in his residence on the pretext of discussing a personal matter and then stabbed him repeatedly with a sharp dagger she had carried under her shawl," he said. Supporters of the legislator then attacked the women, who owns a school in the town, officer Thakur said, adding that she was hospitalised with severe injuries.