29-04-2025
Kerala man, mother get life for dowry death of wife reduced to ‘bag of bones'
The Kollam Additional District Sessions Court in Kerala has sentenced a man and his mother to life imprisonment for starving his wife to death in the name of court also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh each on the convicts — Chanthulal and his mother Geetha court was hearing the dowry death case of Thushara, a native of Karunagappally near Kollam, who died in 2019. Police investigations found that she was brutally tortured and denied food, reducing her to a 'bag of skeleton'.advertisement
At the time of her death, she weighed just 20-21 kg. She had reportedly been ill and experiencing post-mortem report was key in establishing the cause of death. It confirmed that there was no trace of food in her court accepted the prosecution's argument that the verdict should send a message to is survived by two children. A third accused in the case — Lali, Chanthulal's father — was found dead near the Ithikkara river a few months December 2023, a 26-year-old doctor in Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram died by suicide after her boyfriend allegedly called off their wedding because her family failed to meet dowry demands.A postgraduate student in the surgery department of Thiruvananthapuram Medical College, the woman, Shahana, was found dead at her rented her boyfriend, who was also a representative of the Medical PG Doctors Association, ended their relationship because her family was unable to fulfil his dowry demands. His family had allegedly demanded gold, land, and a BMW car in dowry.
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