Compiled by TRACY GUNAPALAN, ALLISON LAI and R. ARAVINTHAN
A four-year-old girl’s drawings inadvertently exposed her father’s alleged cover-up in his wife’s death, according to Makkal Osai.
The girl’s artwork depicted what she witnessed, revealing the truth behind her 27-year-old mother’s death.
The mum was found hanged at their home in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
The woman’s family suspected that her death was not self-inflicted and accused her husband and mother-in-law of being responsible.
Her family paid over two million rupees in dowry during her wedding to Sandeep Budholia in 2019. But his family had reportedly continued to demand more dowry, stopping only after the woman’s father filed a police report.
The couple had three daughters, and Sandeep’s family was reportedly unhappy, blaming his wife for not having any sons.
All of this led to him allegedly beating his wife to death and staging the scene as though his wife took her own life.
He has since been arrested.
The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a, it denotes a separate news item.
