Wish, we had brought her back home earlier: Brother of deceased woman

Minutes before her death, after allegedly falling from the fourth floor of a building in west Delhi, a 25-year-old woman made a series of frantic calls to her family, crying for help and asking them to take care of her six-month-old son, even as her brother laments not bringing her home earlier.

“Around 9.55 pm, she called her sister and asked her to take her from there or else ‘they’ will kill her. She said ‘they’ were beating and abusing her. She kept saying, ‘If something happens to me, take care of my child’,” her brother said.

About an hour later, around 10.02 am, another call came, this time from her brother-in-law.

“He only said my sister had fallen from the terrace,” the family alleged, recalling how they hit her so hard that her eardrums burst.

Hours later, relatives reached a west Delhi hospital only to find that she had already been declared dead after allegedly falling from a building in Dasghara village in Inderpuri on May 18.

Now, with police arresting her husband and brother-in-law in a dowry death case, her family says her final calls continue to haunt them. “Kash hum usse pehle hee ghar wapas le aate (Alas, we had brought her back home long back),” her brother said quietly.

The woman, who married Raju Singh in December 2022, leaves behind a six-month-old son, too young to understand the tragedy unfolding around him.

The police said two accused — husband Raju Singh (27), a private helper at a real estate group in Karol Bagh, and his younger brother Rajkumar (22), employed with a travel group — have been arrested. Another brother-in-law has also been named in the FIR.

The police registered a case after recording statements of family members and examining post-mortem findings. Since the marriage had taken place less than seven years ago, proceedings under provisions related to dowry death were initiated, and the matter was referred to the sub-divisional magistrate (SDM).