Vismaya’s family has alleged torture and harassment by her husband S Kiran Kumar, an assistant motor vehicles inspector, over dowry.
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The death of a medical student in Kerala at her husband’s house allegedly due to dowry demands has sparked anger among people in state and other places.
The 24-year-old Vismaya, an Ayurveda medical student, allegedly died by suicide in the bathroom of her husband’s house at Sasthamkotta district in south Kerala on Monday.
The woman’s family has alleged torture and harassment by her husband S Kiran Kumar, an assistant motor vehicles inspector, over dowry. A day after the woman was found dead, the police arrested Kumar and charged him under section 304B of the Indian Penal Code (dowry death). Kumar was taken into custody last night on the basis of her family’s complaint.
Highlighting repeated torture from Kumar’s family, Vismaya’s kin alleged that their daughter was beaten, mistreated and tortured in her in-law’s house.
A day before the incident, Vismaya sent an SOS to her family in a series of WhatsApp messages over the alleged harassment she was suffering from Kumar over dowry.
Vismaya’s family has alleged torture and harassment by her husband S Kiran Kumar, an assistant motor vehicles inspector, over dowry. The harassment was especially over the car by Kumar who used to verbally abuse Vismaya’s father, saying that he deserved more dowry according to his stature but got only very little.
“The incident is a warning to all the daughters and their parents — whatever be the religion — to show the boy and his relatives the broom the moment they raise the demand for dowry. The boy is getting a girl and that is the greatest dowry he can have.
Will we forget such incidents and return to our ways of asking for and getting dowry?” write senior journalist A J Philip on facebook