The Bengaluru police lately arrested a person after his spouse allegedly died by suicide at their house in southeast Bengaluru.
The accused has been recognized as Praveen, 38, who, in keeping with the First Data Report (FIR), is a software program engineer who stop his job a 12 months after his marriage to Shilpa B Panchangamatha, 27, and started promoting pani puri. The 2 have a 1-year-and-10-month-old baby.
The Suddaguntepalya police registered the case underneath Part 80 (2) (dowry dying) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and Sections 3 (penalty for giving or taking dowry) and 4 (penalty for demanding dowry) of the Dowry Prohibition Act. The FIR was filed on August 27, following a grievance by Shilpa B Panchangamatha’s mom, Sharada B Panchangamatha.
Sharada Panchangamatha instructed the police that her daughter, who labored as a software program engineer with a reputed multinational firm until her baby was born, married Koppal-native Praveen in 2022. The households agreed to the match as each had been techies.
“The marriage bills had been round Rs 35 lakh, and the groom was given a dowry of 150 grams of gold ornaments. A 12 months after the marriage, Praveen stop his job and started promoting pani puri at BTM Structure,” the FIR states.
“After the marriage, Praveen and his mom, Shantavva, tortured my daughter bodily and mentally to carry extra money. Shantavva even instructed my daughter that she was not the appropriate match for Praveen, and if she leaves him, they’d remarry him with somebody extra applicable. As soon as I had despatched my daughter again after giving her Rs 5 lakh money,” the FIR quotes Sharada Panchangamatha as saying.
On August 26, at round 9.15 pm, Shilpa Panchangamatha’s household was knowledgeable that she had died by suicide. Her physique was discovered coated in a mattress sheet in her marital house on BTM First Stage.
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Talking to the media, certainly one of Shilpa Panchangamatha’s family members questioned the circumstances of her dying.
“If she had died by suicide, how did they [her husband and his family] take away her physique earlier than the police arrived, and why did they initially declare that it was a coronary heart assault. It’s a pre-planned homicide. She was additionally one-and-a-half months pregnant on the time of the dying,” the person, recognized as a detailed relative, alleged.
Shilpa Panchangamatha’s sister Soumya additionally alleged that she was murdered. “Her mother-in-law used to physique disgrace her incessantly. They’ve murdered her. They’re mendacity that it was dying by suicide. She was additionally being tortured incessantly,” Soumya instructed reporters.