Rajasthan Sisters Suicide
Rajasthan dowry death: Three sisters, two of them pregnant, commit suicide along with children
Jaipur: Three sisters, who had been married in the same family, committed suicide along with two children. One of the children was aged four and the other was an infant of 27-days. Two of the women were also pregnant when they killed themselves, media reports said.
The sisters--Kalu Meena (25), Mamta (23), and Kamlesh (20) -- were married to three brothers from the same family in Chapiya village of Dudu Jaipur district, according to an NDTV report.
Their cousin Hemraj Meena said his sisters were regularly beaten and harassed for dowry.
When the three women went missing on May 26, their family members ran from pillar to post to trace their whereabouts and also approached the national commission for women and lodged an FIR with the police through the women's helpline but received very little help.
The women did not leave a suicide note but their family members have shared a WhatsApp status of the youngest sister Kamlesh where she wrote in Hindi, "we are leaving now, stay happy, the reason for our death is our in-laws, it's better to die once and for all than die every day. So, we have decided to die together. We hope, the three of us will be together in the next life. We don't want to die but our in-laws harass us. Don't blame our parents for our death", the report stated.
The police recovered their bodies and the two children from a well in the Dudu village this morning, four days after the women went missing.
Police said a case has been registered against the husbands and in-laws of the victims for offences including cruelty and now a case of dowry death will be also added to the original FIR.
The police are interrogating the three husbands, the mother-in-law and other family members in connection with the sase.
Women's activists in Rajasthan have demanded a high level probe, saying that the state should hang its head in shame over the incident which has clearly shown that women's lives don't matter.
They have also demanded action against police who took four days to recover the bodies.
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