Chamarajanagar: Woman found dead, father alleges dowry harassment
Chamarajanagar: A woman was found dead under suspicious circumstances in Kotepode village near Martalli in Hanur taluk of Chamarajanagar district. The woman’s father has filed a complaint alleging that she died by suicide following alleged dowry harassment.
The deceased has been identified as Priya, wife of Shivakumar.
According to the complaint filed by her father at the Ramapura police station, Shivakumar had taken a loan from a finance company and was allegedly pressuring Priya to bring money from her parental home to repay the instalments. The father stated that despite repeated advice from relatives over the past month, the harassment allegedly continued. He said that in December 2025, he had given Rs 50,000 in cash.
It is also alleged that on the afternoon of February 14, 2026, when her children met Priya, she told them that she was being harassed for additional dowry. Later in the evening, she reportedly informed her father over the phone about the same issue.
Neighbours said that around 10 pm, when Shivakumar stepped out of the house, Priya was found hanging from the ceiling fan in a room. The family later brought the body down.
“My daughter ended her life due to continuous dowry harassment. Shivakumar and his mother Shanti are responsible for her death,” the deceased father alleged in his complaint.
A case has been registered at the Ramapura police station. Additional Superintendent of Police Shashidhar visited the spot and gathered information. Further investigation is under way.
(Assistance for overcoming suicidal thoughts is available on the state’s health helpline 104, Tele-MANAS 14416.)
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Over 17,000 people went missing in Delhi in 2024: NCRB
New Delhi (PTI): A total of 23,058 people, comprising 9,482 men and 13,576 women, were reported missing in Delhi in 2024, according to the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).
Of the total, 5,491 were children below the age of 18 — 1,571 boys, 3,920 girls.
The city recorded 17,567 fresh adult missing persons cases in 2024, comprising 7,911 men and 9,656 women.
According to the NCRB data, released on Wednesday, 14,637 men, 18,238 women and six transgender persons were still missing from previous years.
At the latest count, in 2024, Delhi had a total of 55,939 missing persons cases — 24,119 men, 31,814 women and six transgender persons.
In 2024, police traced or collected 28,392 missing persons, including 12,182 men, 16,208 women and two transgender persons.
Only half of the men and half of the women who went missing could be traced.
A total of 27,547 missing persons – 11,937 men, 15,606 women, four transgender persons — were yet to be untraced by the end of the year, the data showed.
The data also revealed that 5,352 children from previous years remained untraced at the beginning of 2024.
The number of still missing boys was 1,621, and the number of missing girls was 3,729. Two transgender children were yet to be found.
After adding the pending cases from previous years, the total number of missing children cases handled in 2024 rose to 10,843.
The police traced or recovered 6,762 missing children — 2,030 boys, 4,732 girls.
The recovery rate stood at 63.6 per cent for boys and 61.9 per cent for girls, while no transgender child was traced.
By the end of 2024, a total of 4,081 children remained untraced, 1,162 of them boys, 2,917 girls, and two transgender children.
