“Around 10.30pm that night, her mother-in-law called me and asked me to come to their house, saying that Divya is unwell. By the time, I reached their home, they had taken her to a government hospital. When I reached the hospital, I realized she was murdered by her in-laws,” Premkumar recalls.
“She had marks all over her face,” he adds.
The next day, Divya’s brother filed a complaint with the Mannargudi town police station.
“During the investigation, we found out that three men, including her father-in-law, had murdered her,” a senior police officer from Mannargudi tells TNM.
“The father-in-law told us during the interrogation that he and his wife wanted to get their son married to another woman, to get more dowry. So, they decided to kill her,” inspector of Mannargudi town police station says.
Asked about the husband’s role in the case, police say he was not involved in murder, but he has been charged with dowry harassment.
