Five newly wedded girls dying due to murders and suicides in the last three days has shocked the Kerala psyche again.
Out of the five victims, four lost their lives as the fallout of ill treatment by the in-laws who demanded from the new brides more money and gold as dowry. Paravoor in Ernakulam woke up to a sad Monday morning as 22-year-old Amala was found hanging in her husband’s house.
The girl was found to be three months pregnant and was not allowed to speak with her parents in Thiruvananthapuram. “It was an arranged marriage and the couple visited our house only twice after the marriage. My daughter is not one who resorts to suicide or extreme measures. There is foul play behind this death,” her mother told journalists on Monday. Police have registered a case over unnatural death and a probe is on to ascertain the factors that led Amla to resort to the extreme step.
Even before the autopsy of Amla could get over, 26-year-old Nikita of Alappuzha was murdered allegedly by her husband Aneesh at Varkkala early Tuesy morning. The couple got married in July and was abroad for sometime before they returned home in August. Aneesh reportedly stabbed his wife with a lamp made of brass and Nikita died on the spot.
There was report of another unnatural death from Payyannoor in Kannur district where K P Soorya, another newly married girl was found dead under mysterious conditions. Her parents alleged that her husband Rajesh had been behaving in a cruel manner from day one with her.