Kerala Dowry Case: Jasim Nas did not want her sister Shahana to marry into a family that demanded dowry. But the 26-year-old doctor was certain that she had chosen a "good man". Jasim had agreed to support the match, only for his sister's happiness.
A local councillor claimed that initially, the doctor s family was ready to pay dowry but the groom s family later demanded a heftier amount which her family was unable to agree to.
When she failed to report to duty, colleagues found resident trainee doctor Shahana, 28, unconscious at the post-graduate students hostel after she allegedly self-administering an anaesthesia drug Monday night.
Kerala dowry case: Court sentences husband to 10 years in jail, imposes Rs 12.5 lakh fine - Kerala dowry case: A total fine of Rs 12,55,000 was also imposed on S Kiran Kumar.
A Kerala court on Monday convicted the husband of Vismaya, an Ayurveda medical student who hanged herself in her marital home in June last year, for dowry death and abetting her suicide.