Hyderabad: Pregnant techie ends life due to dowry harassment

HYDERABAD: A software engineer ended her life due to alleged dowry harassment at her house in Jagadgirigutta on Wednesday night. The victim was five months pregnant and police registered a dowry death case.
The victim, Krishna Priya, 24, from Dilsukhnagar, had married her relative, Sravan Kumar, in June 2020. Sravan Kumar runs a gym at IDPL Colony and, according to Jagadgirigutta police, he and Krishna Priya were in love for the past several years.In 2016, Krishna Priya, however, married another man, but after six months, she divorced him. Subsequently, she became close to Sravan and they got married in June, Jagadgirigutta inspector A Ganga Reddy said.
The couple along with Sravan’s parents have been staying at Papi Reddy Nagar of Jagadgirigutta. Around 9.30pm on Wednesday, Krishna Priya locked herself in the bedroom. A little later, her in-law’s grew suspicious as she did not respond to their calls. They forcibly opened the door and found her hanging from the ceiling fan with a stole, the inspector said.
There was no suicide note and in her complaint, Krishna Priya’s mother, Neela, alleged that she committed suicide due to dowry harassment from Sravan and his mother Meena. “The complainant alleged that at the time of wedding, they gave Rs 2 lakh cash and 12 tola gold as dowry. Sravan and his mother had been harassing Krishna Priya for Rs 5 lakh additional dowry,” the inspector said.
Based on the complaint, a dowry death case was registered under Section 304-B of the IPC. After the inquest and post-mortem examination, the body was handed over to her family members. No arrests have been made yet.