Dowry harassment: 28-year-old woman in Telangana allegedly commits suicide after stifling children
Hyderabad: A 28-year-old woman is suspected to have hanged herself to death after strangulating her two young children, including a 10-month-old son, at the woman’s in-laws’ house Gollagudem village near Bibinagar on Monday night.
The deceased are identified as Aishwarya, who had married Mahesh Yadav, a railway track maintenance worker in Gollagudem in Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district, four years ago, and their children, two-year-old Janaki and 10-month-old son Pandu.
A police case has been registered, but no arrest has been made yet.
According to a report by Times of India, the death was allegedly the outcome of dowry harassment, although B Ravindar, Bhuvanagiri Deputy Superintendent of Police, has said that it is yet to be ascertained if the children were strangulated by their mother.
Aishwarya’s family has said that, following compatibility issues with Mahesh allegedly due to dowry harassment, Aishwarya, along with her children, had returned to her parents’ home in Vemulakonda one-and-a-half years ago. The couple started living together again once a round of intervention by seniors.
On Monday evening, after Aishwarya’s relatives dropped her and the children to Yadav’s house, her husband left for work at night. On Tuesday morning, however, as neither Aishwarya nor the children came out of the bedroom, her mother-in-law Sathyamma forced open the bedroom door, only to find her daughter-in-law and grandchildren lying dead.
A death note was found in the bedroom, with Aishwarya accusing her husband and his parents of harassing her for dowry and thereby forcing her to take the extreme step.
Aishwarya’s father Yadaiah, who filed a police complaint, has said that he had given Yadav and his family Rs 30 lakh during their marriage, in spite of which, his daughter was harassed for more money.
The bodies of Aishwarya and her children were handed over to her relatives after completion of the post-mortem.
(Assistance for overcoming suicidal thoughts is available on the state’s health helpline 104, Tele-MANAS 14416.)
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Karnataka govt revokes suspension of DGP Ramachandra Rao, reinstates him
Bengaluru (PTI): The Karnataka government on Wednesday revoked the suspension order of DGP K Ramachandra Rao and reinstated him into service with immediate effect.
According to the official order, the 1993-batch IPS officer has been posted, with immediate effect and until further orders, as Director General of Police (Police Manual).
"The post of Director General of Police (Police Manual) is declared equivalent in status and responsibilities to the cadre post of Director General of Police, Criminal Investigation Department, Special Units and Economic Offences, Bengaluru, under Rule 12 of the IPS (Pay) Rules, 2016, as included in Schedule II of the said rules," the government order stated.
Rao, who was then serving as Director General of Police (Civil Rights Enforcement), was placed under suspension with immediate effect on January 19, citing conduct unbecoming of a government servant and causing embarrassment to the state administration.
News channels had beamed videos purportedly showing Rao in a compromising position with women. The videos had also gone viral on social media.
Rao is the stepfather of Kannada actress Harshavardhini Ranya, alias Ranya Rao, who is accused of orchestrating the illegal import of gold worth over Rs 12.56 crore from Dubai to India along with two others--businessman Tarun Raju and jewellery dealer Sahil Jain.
Ranya was apprehended at Bengaluru's Kempegowda International Airport on March 3, 2025, with 14.8 kilograms of gold allegedly smuggled from Dubai.
