Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (SP)

Udupi, Oct 30: A lady, identified as Deepa (33), wife of Surendra G Poojary, resident of Patelarabettu, Tekkatte in Kundapur taluk has filed a dowry harassment case against her husband and his family members.

Deepa said she had married Surendra G Poojary, who has been named as the first accused, on May 3, 2012, and her parents had, under pressure from her father-in-law Govinda Poojary, mother-in-law Chandu Poojary and others, had paid dowry of two lac rupees in cash. After marriage, the couple settled down in Bengaluru.

However, her married life proved to be a bed or rocks as her husband and other members of his family continuously inflicted physical and mental torture on her demanding to bring additional dowry. She has said that she was threatened with murder if she revealed what sort of harassment she was undergoing there to her parents. She was, in course of time, forced to leave her husband’s home by bringing pressure on her and also through domestic violence.

A case under different sections of Indian Penal Code and the Dowry Prohibition Act stands registered in the women's police station here.