Pune: A 33-year-old IT engineer died by suicide after allegedly being pressured repeatedly by her husband to grant him a divorce so that he could remarry. The deceased woman was also allegedly harassed over transferring a flat in her husband’s name and pressured to bring money from her parental home.The woman was found hanging from a ceiling fan at her flat in Keshavnagar, Mundhwa, on Sept 29, police said. Her 74-year-old father, a resident of Mundhwa, lodged a complaint at Mundhwa police station.The Mundhwa police on Monday registered a case of abetment to suicide against five members of her in-laws’ family — her husband, mother-in-law, father-in-law, sister-in-law and grandmother-in-law. Her sister-in-law was arrested in Andheri, Mumbai.According to the police, the woman had allegedly been harassed by her in-laws over money since 2018. She was allegedly pressured to arrange funds to buy a flat and transfer it in her husband’s name. The techie was also told to bring money from her parental home repeatedly to repay a loan taken for her sister-in-law’s education.Senior inspector Smita Wasnik of the Mundhwa police said, “We found a note purportedly written by the deceased. In the note, she stated that she was ending her life because of harassment by her husband and in-laws and that they should be held responsible for her death. Audio recordings of conversations between her and her husband were also found on her cellphone.”
