Overview

• Sanju Bishnoi, a government school lecturer, allegedly set herself and her daughter Yashasvi on fire on August 22 in Jodhpur; the child died at the scene and the mother died the next day in hospital.
• Police say a note recovered during the investigation accuses the husband, parents-in-law and a sister-in-law of harassment linked to dowry.
• On the victim’s father’s complaint, an FIR has been registered for harassment and abetment to suicide, and the husband and in-laws have been booked.
• Investigators seized the woman’s mobile phone for Forensic Science Laboratory analysis, recovered a petrol container, reported no signs of struggle and said the house was locked from inside.
• The note also names a man identified as Ganpat Singh, whom police are trying to trace, while a dispute over custody of the bodies ended with a joint cremation of mother and child.