Two Telangana Suicides Linked to Alleged Dowry Harassment as Police Book Husbands and In-Laws
Police opened separate cases naming relatives in both deaths after family complaints alleging sustained dowry harassment.
Overview
- Engineering student Kuncham Gangotri, 21, was found dead at her home in Mansoorabad on November 17, with police recovering a suicide note from the room.
- LB Nagar police registered an FIR based on her father’s complaint, naming husband Bhanu along with his parents, sister, and brother-in-law among the accused.
- Family allegations in Gangotri’s case include demands for ₹30 lakh and 10 tolas of gold, the snatching of her mangalsutra, and threats that her husband would marry someone else.
- In Karimnagar’s Ellandakunta mandal, Malleboina Mounika, 20 and seven months pregnant, died by suicide after allegedly being pressed for additional dowry in the form of a motorcycle.
- Ellandakunta police opened a case on a complaint from Mounika’s mother, naming her husband Prashanth and his parents, with investigations continuing in both cases.