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Kerala Police Charge Husband and Mother-in-Law Over Pregnant Woman’s Suicide

Authorities have remanded the accused under sections of the new Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita after a medical inquest.

Overview

  • Faseela was found hanging on her husband’s terrace in Irinjalakuda on July 29 after allegedly suffering sustained domestic abuse.
  • Irinjalakuda Police registered an FIR on July 30 under Sections 108, 85 and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and arrested her husband Noufal Valiyakathu and his mother Ramla.
  • Investigators completed a medical inquest at Thrissur Government Medical College and are preparing to hand over her body to her family.
  • Faseela’s final WhatsApp messages to her mother, in which she detailed being kicked in the abdomen and verbally abused, have become central evidence.
  • The probe into the motive and full extent of the alleged cruelty is ongoing.