Overview

• Police say the 32-year-old lecturer set herself and her daughter on fire at their Jodhpur home on Friday; the child died at the scene and the mother died on Saturday at Mahatma Gandhi Hospital.
• The woman’s parents filed an FIR naming her husband and in-laws, alleging years of dowry harassment and abetment to suicide.
• Investigators report recovering a suicide note that accuses the husband and in-laws of driving her to take her life.
• Officers seized the deceased’s mobile phone and sent it to the Forensic Science Laboratory, and a petrol can was recovered from the house.
• After a dispute over custody, the bodies were handed to the woman’s parents following the post-mortem, and mother and child were cremated together.