Noida,

20 May (HS): Gautam Buddha Nagar police detained two additional people on

Wednesday in connection with the suspected dowry death of a 24-year-old woman

in Greater Noida, according to authorities. According to an official statement,

Poonam (the victim's husband's mother) and Vinod (the husband's uncle) were

detained, while the husband, Hritik, and his father, Manoj, had previously been

arrested in the case. According to

police, a FIR was filed at Ecotech-3 police station on May 17 under Sections 85

and 80(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry

Prohibition Act of 1961. Section 85 of the BNS deals with subjecting a woman to

physical, mental, or dowry-related abuse, whereas Section 80(2) deals with

dowry death and imposes penalties ranging from seven years' imprisonment to

life imprisonment.

Police

said a total of seven people were listed in the FIR, four of whom have been

detained, and that additional investigation is underway. The case involves

Deepika Nagar, who died on Sunday night after reportedly falling from the

terrace of her three-story matrimonial house in Jalpura village, Gautam Buddh

Nagar district. Her in-laws said she died after falling from the building, but

her family claims she was murdered for dowry and that the incident was neither

accidental or suicide. The postmortem report of a lady revealed a brain bleed,

internal organ rupture, and many contusions on the deceased's body, despite the

fact that police stated that viscera samples had been saved for forensic

investigation after the autopsy.

Deepika's

father, Sanjay Nagar, filed a complaint saying she contacted him immediately

before the event and informed him she was being harassed by her in-laws over

dowry demands. According to the family,

the accused demanded a Toyota Fortuner SUV and an extra Rs 45-50 lakh in cash. Deepika's

father further said that her body had several damage marks, including wounds

matching those inflicted by a screwdriver, and that there were variations in

accounts supplied by in-laws about how she was injured. Her relatives also

claimed that she was exposed to mental and physical assault within months after

her marriage in December 2024. Police previously stated that filming of the

postmortem examination had been undertaken, and that further parts might be

added based on forensic results and the continuation of the inquiry.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi