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No foul play seen in Indian woman's death - US police
Police in the US said yesterday that no foul play was suspected in the death of a 24-year-old woman from Andhra Pradesh state, while her family claimed that the death might be connected to her husband's demand for more dowry.
- IANS
- Published: 23:27 November 22, 2008
Los Angeles/Hyderabad: Police in the US said yesterday that no foul play was suspected in the death of a 24-year-old woman from Andhra Pradesh state, while her family claimed that the death might be connected to her husband's demand for more dowry.
Goli Sushma was found dead on Thursday afternoon at her home at Northridge near Los Angeles. Devonshire Police Station, under whose jurisdiction the incident happened, sent a three-member team to the house.
While the autopsy report is yet to be received, police said preliminary investigations did not point to foul play.
"I do not believe that there is a crime associated with the death," Sergeant Maria Stpierre, supervisor at the Devonshire Police Station, told IANS.
"It is an ongoing investigation," she said when asked if any suicide note was found.
Sushma had married Goli Suresh Babu, a software engineer, in April 2006 and had been staying in the US for the past year.
Sushma's father, V. Kanakarajam, a resident of Hyderabad, said he received the news of his daughter's death on Friday from Harika, a relative in Los Angeles.
Phone calls
Babu had phoned Harika and asked her to visit the house saying he had some problem. By the time Harika reached there, Sushma's body had been shifted to a hospital for autopsy, Kanakarajam said. The grief-stricken father said that he made several attempts to contact his son-in-law over the phone but he did not respond, giving rise to suspicions of foul play.
Sushma's relatives said they had also not received any information from Babu's parents who also stay in Hyderabad. They added that Babu had complained that the marriage was not performed on a grand scale. He was also not satisfied with the Rs1 million (Dh74,123) dowry Sushma's parents had given.
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