This is an archive article published on September 10, 2021
Kerala dowry death: Vismaya died by suicide due to harassment, says charge sheet
The 500-page charge sheet says that Vismaya died by suicide due to dowry harassment and there were 102 witnesses and 56 pieces of evidence including digital ones.
Vismaya, 22, was found dead in the house of her husband S Kiran Kumar at Sasthamkotta in Kollam district on June 21. (File)
Kerala police on Friday submitted the charge sheet in the Vismaya case in which an Ayurveda medical student was found dead in her husband’s house under mysterious circumstances after she had complained of dowry harassment.
Kollam Rural SP KB Ravi, who arrived at the local court to submit the charge sheet, told the media that the case had shocked the conscience of the state.
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The 500-page charge sheet says that Vismaya died by suicide due to dowry harassment and there were 102 witnesses and 56 pieces of evidence including digital ones.
“Initially section 174 of CrPC (suicide) was charged in the case. Later during the course of investigation, we added section 304 B of the IPC (Dowry death) among others,” Ravi said.
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