Medical college police, who have registered a case of unnatural death of a post graduate medical student at the Thiruvananthapuram medical college, registered a case against Dr Ruwise EA, former state president of the Medical PG Association, and charged him with abettment to suicide and sections of Dowry Prohibition Act.
Earlier health minister Veena George has ordered a probe into the suicide in the wake of the allegations levelled by her family that she took the extreme step as a result of dowry related issues.
Shahana, a 26-year-old postgraduate doctor at the surgery department in the Government medical college Thiruvananthapuram, was found dead in her apartment here on Tuesday.
Ruwise’s marriage with Shahana had been fixed. But later Ruwise’s family demanded 150 sovereigns of gold, 15 acres of land and a BMW car as dowry. Shahana’s family had first agreed to give 50 sovereigns of gold, property worth Rs 50 lakh and a car. However, the friend’s family was not ready to agree for this and withdrew from the marriage. This had devastated Shahana and fell into a depression, her family said.