Hyderabad: 25-year-old woman commits suicide due to dowry harassment, parents allege foul play

A young woman who was working with the DRDO in Hyderabad allegedly committed suicide due to dowry harassment. According to a report in The New Indian Express, Varsha, 25, hanged herself when her in-laws were not at home. 

The report states that she took the extreme step due to dowry harassment. However, her parents have alleged that there were injuries on her body and that she was killed by her in-laws. 

Varsha, an engineer, was working with the DRDO since 2011 and got married to Ranjith Goud in March 2015. The report says that her parents had given dowry worth Rs 80 lakh consisting of jewellery and property. Ranjith is a junior railway engineer and is said to have demanded more dowry of Rs 10 lakh in cash and the six acre agricultural land her father owned.

Varsha had reportedly been complaining about dowry harassment to her parents but they had tried to assure her that things would get better. 

Varsha ad Ranjith had gone to Goa for Diwali and had returned on Sunday evening at around 5.30 pm. On Monday morning, she allegedly committed suicide in her in-laws home. A case of dowry death under Section 304(b) has been registered after a complaint, the report says.