Delhi woman jumps to to death; husband, brothers-in-law booked over dowry harassment

NEW DELHI: A case of dowry death has been registered two days after a 25-year-old woman died after allegedly falling from a building in west Delhi’s Dasghara village.

The woman was married to Raju Singh, who works in customer verification for a private real estate company. The couple, married in 2022, and had a six-month-old child. The woman was a homemaker, said police.

According to investigators, a PCR call was received regarding a woman falling from a building, near Holi Chowk, in Dasghara village. A team from Inderpuri police station reached the spot and shifted the woman to a nearby hospital, where doctors declared her brought dead.

“The woman had been married for less than seven years. Mandatory legal proceedings were initiated and the Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) of the Karol Bagh area was informed,” said DCP (west) Darade Sharad Bhaskar. Statements of the deceased woman’s family members were subsequently recorded as part of the inquest proceedings.

The crime and the forensic science laboratory (FSL) teams from Rohini collected evidence from the spot. The woman’s post-mortem was also conducted on Wednesday.

“When statements were recorded of family members, it emerged that the woman was being harassed for dowry, which may have led her to jump,” said a senior police officer. The facts of the case are being ascertained and verified, the officer added.

Based on the inquiry, statements of relatives and the post-mortem report, police have registered an FIR under Sections 80 (dowry death) and 3(5) (common intention) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita against the woman’s husband and his two brothers on Wednesday.

Just earlier this week, two more alleged cases of dowry death had emerged. In Greater Noida, 24-year-old Deepika Nagar died after allegedly falling from the terrace of her in-laws’ house, with her family accusing her husband’s family of dowry harassment. In another case, Noida resident Twisha Sharma was found dead at her marital home in Bhopal, with her relatives alleging dowry harassment by her in-laws.