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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India backs 'Myanmar-led, Myanmar-owned' peace process: EAM Jaishankar
New Delhi (PTI): India supports a Myanmar-led and Myanmar-owned peace process that can deliver lasting peace and development for all in the Southeast Asian country, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Wednesday.
The external affairs minister also highlighted the importance India attaches to its ties with Myanmar saying the country lies at the confluence of New Delhi's three key foreign policy priorities: 'Neighbourhood First', 'Act East', and MAHASAGAR (Mutual and Holistic Advancement for Security and Growth Across Regions).
Myanmar is one of India's strategic neighbours and it shares a 1,640-kilometer-long border with a number of northeastern states including militancy-hit Nagaland and Manipur.
The country has been witnessing widespread violent protests after the military seized power in a coup on February 1, 2021. The military-backed party secured a victory in Myanmar's recent general election.
Jaishankar was speaking virtually at the inauguration of the Sarsobeikman Literary Centre building in the heart of Yangon. The building has been constructed with New Delhi's assistance.
"As the world's largest democracy with 1.4 billon people living together in peace and harmony, India has regularly shared its experiences in federalism and constitutionalism with stakeholders in Myanmar," he said.
"We support an inclusive, Myanmar-led and Myanmar-owned peace process, that can deliver lasting peace and development for all in Myanmar," he added.
Jaishankar said the Sarsobeikman Centre will support the conservation and study of classical and folk literatures of Myanmar, as well as translation, archival work, creative writing, and scholarly exchanges.
"Myanmar lies at the confluence of our three key foreign policy priorities - Neighbourhood First, Act East, and MAHASAGAR including the Indo-Pacific," he said.
"Our multifaceted engagement, includes political, trade, security and cultural cooperation. When it comes to development cooperation, our engagement with Myanmar has been people-centric and demand-driven, aimed towards strengthening local economies and improving lives," the minister said.
Jaishankar said India and Myanmar have been bound together for centuries by spirituality, kinship and geography, as well as by language and literature.
"As Buddhism and Pali language and literature travelled across South Asia, they carried with them ideas, texts, and a shared intellectual heritage," he said.
