Jodhpur: Woman sets herself, 3-year-old daughter on fire; both dead, cites in-law harassment in suicide note

JODHPUR: In a new development in the case of a school teacher who set herself and her three-year-old daughter on fire, police on Thursday said they have found a note in which she made serious allegations of harassment against her in-laws.On August 22, 32-year-old Sanju Bishnoi sat her daughter on her lap at their home, poured petrol over both of them and then struck a light.After catching fire, they fell to the floor. The woman’s husband, Dilip Bishnoi, was not at home at the time of the incident.When neighbours noticed smoke rising from the house, they alerted the woman’s father, who, along with the family, rushed to the scene and found the daughter burning."The daughter died on the spot, while the woman succumbed to injuries at the Mahatma Gandhi Hospital in Jodhpur on Saturday," ACP of Mandore Nagendra Kumar said.The woman’s father filed a police complaint on Sunday, alleging that she was being harassed over dowry. Following the complaint, an FIR was registered against her husband, parents-in-law, and sister-in-law, Kumar said.The victim’s family also accused her in-laws of abetting the suicide.

Police added that during the inspection of the incident site, a note was recovered in which the woman accused her in-laws of harassment. Her mobile phone has been seized and sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) for examination.ACP Kumar said, "We look forward to obtaining several crucial pieces of information from it."(With inputs from agencies)