But, for the past one year she was staying separately in IIT.Īccording to his statement, Ritesh allegedly asked Manjula for around Rs 25 lakh to start a business and threatened divorce if the money was not paid. He alleged that after around 2 years of their marriage, Ritesh had quit his job and was staying with Manjula at her hostel in IIT. In the FIR, Devak, a railway employee, alleged that Manjula was regularly beaten and harassed by her husband for dowry. I should have saved all the money for her dowry.” Standing outside the AIIMS mortuary a day after the suicide, Manoj Devak, Manjula’s father, told this correspondent: “It was a mistake to educate my daughter and send her to IIT. Though the police did not find any suicide note, Manjula’s parents had accused Ritesh of harassing her for dowry forcing her to demand money from her parents to start a business.Ī subdivisional magistrate had conducted an inquiry and a case of dowry death was registered nearly a month later, on June 1. A topper of the water resources engineering master’s, she got married to her husband in 2013 but was living separately in the IIT hostel. On the evening of May 29, Manjula, a civil engineer pursuing PhD in IIT Delhi, was found hanging in her room. The team is in Bhopal to question his parents.Ĭhinmoy Biswal, additional deputy commissioner of police, south west district, confirmed Ritesh’s arrest from Bhopal. He was arrested by a Delhi police team on alleged charges of dowry death. This message, among others, formed a crucial part of the evidence that led the police to arrest Manjula’s husband, Ritesh Virha last Thursday from Bhopal.

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