A 53-year-old woman allegedly committed suicide in Amritsar on Monday along with her daughter after consuming poison, a police official said.
Rambagh police station in-charge Mehar Singh said Santosh Sharma, a homemaker, committed suicide along with her 28-year-old daughter Shilpa Sharma, allegedly out of depression over family dispute.
"While Santosh Sharma died on the spot, Shilpa died while undergoing treatment in a hospital here," he said.
Farooq Khan, the Administrator of the Union Territory, held a meeting at Kavaratti with senior officials of the local administration, Navy and Coast Guard, a Lakshadweep administration spokesperson said.
K Annamalai met Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy in the presence of state Home Minister M B Patil and informed him about his resignation.
Three West Bengal MLAs, including BJP leader Mukul Roy's son Subhrangshu Roy, and over 50 municipal councillors, most of them from the Trinamool Congress, joined the BJP on Tuesday.
Incriminating materials, including arms and ammunition, were recovered from the site of the encounter.
Actor Karan Oberoi, in his petition, claimed he was falsely implicated in the case, and that it was a consensual relationship between him and the woman.
On Sunil Jakhar's own defeat from Gurdaspur, which he cited as his reason for quitting, the Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee chief was not to blame for the loss.