Hyderabad: Woman thrashed by husband for excessive use of water heater, kills self

Hyderabad: N. Srivastav, the elder son of Sushruta who committed suicide in Saidabad, has revealed how his father tortured his mother and beat her up severely after an argument over excessive use of the electric water heater. He said his grandfather had snatched the phone of his mother and dragged him on the floor.

Sushruta allegedly committed suicide after being beaten by her husband and in-laws for excessive use of the electrical water heater.

Meanwhile, tension gripped OGH during her post-mortem, as Sushruta’s family demanded that they want to perform her final rites in Saidabad. Around 15 persons, including her brother and uncles and members of women’s groups were detained for protesting near the mortuary and released in the evening.

Srivastav said that after his father Mohan came home from work his grandmother told him about his mother using the water heater for a long time. Mohan opened the bathroom door while Sushruta was bathing, pulled her out and started beating her up. “I have seen my dad beating mom many times but this time it was very severe. When my mom tried to wrap herself with a nighty he pulled it away and beat her,” he said.

Her relatives blamed the police for not providing them protection to perform Sushruta’s last rites in Saidabad and forcing them to move to their native place Suryapet in Nalgonda.

“They increased security at my son-in-law’s house who killed my daughter, but cannot provide protection to us for the last rites. They say there will be tension if we take my daughter’s body to Saidabad now. Is this their friendly policing?,” Sushruta’s father K. Satyanarayana said.

Though Sushruta was facing harassment since a long time she never told her family as she was worried about her father’s health. Her father has a kidney problem. “Two years ago in Kolkata they injured her head and dumped her on a railway track trying to make it a suicide but she escaped and was hospitalised for six months. How can she commit suicide now?” said her mother Jayamma, who was trying to conceal the news of Sushruta’s death from her sons Srivatsav and Manu.

Her parents and relatives staged a protest outside the Osmania GH mortuary demanding action her husband Mohan Rao and in-laws. “Our only request to them is to give an assurance about the kids’ future. But for this they want us to withdraw the case regarding my cousin’s death,” said her cousin Ravi Kumar. Police said that they had only asked them to move to their native place to avoid tension while performing the final rites.