Overview

• Manisha, 24, recorded a video and left a three-page note before consuming pesticide in Rathonda village of Baghpat district on Tuesday night.
• In her note and video she accused her husband, Kundan, and four in-laws of continuous dowry demands, physical violence, confinement and forced abortion.
• An FIR has been registered against her husband, mother-in-law, father-in-law and two brothers-in-law based on a complaint from Manisha’s brother, Ritik.
• Baghpat police have sent her body for postmortem and conducted a forensic examination of the crime scene as they work to arrest the accused.
• The case has intensified calls for stricter enforcement of India’s Dowry Prohibition Act and more timely investigations into marital harassment.