Nagercoil – A voice clip that was found from the mobile phone of BS Sruthi, the 23-year-old who committed suicide at her husband Karthik’s message reveals that she was tortured for months together in the name of dowry. Sruthi’s father alleged that her mother-in-law had ill-treated her multiple times in the name of dowry.
In her last voice message, Sruthi says sorry to her mother many times, breaking down as she speaks, recounting her ordeal. Three days after Sruthi B S allegedly ended her life in her husband’s residence in Nagercoil, her father, Babu Parameswaran Nair, plays the message over and over again on his phone as if trying to decode what could have pushed his daughter to take her own life.
She had sent the message around 7.25 am on Monday to her mother Sathidevi’s phone. She missed the message until 8 am when she switched on the internet and heard her daughter’s message.
By the time the family of Sruthi reached Nagercoil, her body was shifted to mortuary. Babu said his daughter looked like she was peacefully asleep. “None of their family members were there at the hospital. We filed a complaint at the police station that day. We need to know what really happened to our daughter,” said Babu, Sruthi’s father.
Shruthi’s husband is Karthik, an employee of the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board. Both were married in April. As per reports, Sruthi’s mother-in-law had constantly harassed her which led to her taking the extreme step. Sruthi’s father had filed a complaint with the police who have begun the probe. As soon as the cops took the statements of the family, Sruthi’s mother-in-law attempted suicide and is currently hospitalized.
She was an educated woman, beyond a point she started talking back. When she had her periods, they wouldn’t let her sit on chair or bed, she had to lie on the floor. She was not allowed to eat with her husband, was told to eat from plate of leftovers after he had left. Whenever we raised this matter, the mother-in-law would feign to be kind,” said Babu.
In her message, Sruthi says they wanted her out of the house. “If they insist on Tamil Nadu style funeral, don’t allow that. I don’t want anything from them. Cremate me in an electric crematorium,” she says in the message.
