A Selvaraj, TNN | Dec 25, 2011, 03.45AM IST
CHENNAI: The Mylapore police are investigating the circumstances that led to the immolation of a 19-year-old woman at Dooming Kuppam near Santhome on Monday, two days after she came to the station to complain about dowry harassment. K Esther Mary had approached the all-women police station in Mylapore last Saturday, but the police did not register a case. Two days later, she was burnt alive, her mother V Selvi, said her complaint.
Mary had gone to the station with Selvi, who works as a maid, pleading for action since her husband and in-laws were harassing her for dowry. Two days later, her sister Pauline and neighbours saw her running out of her in-laws' house, flames engulfing her body. She reached her parents' house nearby and fell unconscious.
"The neighbours and Pauline threw sand on Mary to douse the flames and rushed her to theKilpauk Medical College. She died early on Tuesday before she could give a statement to police," Selvi told TOI. She said she again went to the Mylapore police to complain that Mary had been set on fire by her in-laws. "Even then no action was taken. A woman sub-inspector who investigated the case told us not to tell anyone that we had approached the station last Saturday," Selvi said.
Police have filed a case of unnatural death.
Mary had gone to the station with Selvi, who works as a maid, pleading for action since her husband and in-laws were harassing her for dowry. Two days later, her sister Pauline and neighbours saw her running out of her in-laws' house, flames engulfing her body. She reached her parents' house nearby and fell unconscious.
"The neighbours and Pauline threw sand on Mary to douse the flames and rushed her to theKilpauk Medical College. She died early on Tuesday before she could give a statement to police," Selvi told TOI. She said she again went to the Mylapore police to complain that Mary had been set on fire by her in-laws. "Even then no action was taken. A woman sub-inspector who investigated the case told us not to tell anyone that we had approached the station last Saturday," Selvi said.
Police have filed a case of unnatural death.
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