Hyderabad: In a tragic incident, a woman killed her two children and later committed suicide over suspected dowry harassment at Bibinagar in Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district of Telangana over family issues on Monday, March 2.
The victims have been identified as 28-year-old Aishwarya, her two-year-old daughter Janaki and 10-month-old son Pandu.
Aishwarya had married Mahesh Yadav, a railway track maintenance worker from Gollagudem village of Yadadri Bhuvanagiri, four years ago, but trouble arose about two years into the marriage, allegedly due to dowry harassment, following which Aishwarya took her children and started living with her parents in Vemulakonda, Times of India reported.
However, after being consoled by relatives, Aishwarya returned to her in-laws’ house on Monday. The next morning, when Aishwarya and her children did not step out of the room, her mother-in-law forced the door open to find Aishwarya hanging by the ceiling fan.
Both children were also found dead on the bed, supposedly smothered with pillows. Aishwarya left a suicide note alleging that she was taking the extreme step due to dowry harassment from her husband and in-laws, Bhuvanagri deputy superintendent of police, B Ravindar was quoted as saying by TOI.
A complaint was registered at Bibinagar police station by Aishwarya’s family, wherein her father claimed that he had already given Rs 30 lakh as dowry at the time of marriage, but the in-laws started demanding more.
A case has been registered under sections 80 (dowry death) and 103 (1) (murder) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita against the husband Yadav, his sisters Anita and Kavitha and his parents Satyamma and Narsimha.
No arrests have been made yet.
