Mangalore: Murder Alleged - Sowmya’s Death in Ghana Gains Twist 
Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (RS/SB) 

Mangalore, Jan 11: Padavinangady native Sowmya’s death in Ghana, West Africa touted as a suicide has gained sudden twist with family suspecting the incident to be a murder. Her body was brought to city on Monday January 11.

Sowmya, who had left to Ghana in West Africa after her marriage to Prem had allegedly shot herself in a farm house on December 28, 2009. She had married Prem on December 31, 2008. However, in a curious twist to the whole incident, Sowmya’s parents now suspect her to have been murdered by husband after harassing for dowry.

Prem’s family, who had visited Sowmya’s parents, informed that she had committed suicide. Following the information Sowmya’s father Achyuth Poojary tried contacting his son-in-law and failed to do so. Further, all the calls to Prem and Sowmya’s number were barred which raised suspicion. It is further shocking that Sowmya’s husband has chosen to stay back in Africa instead of accompanying his wife’s body. 

Relatives of the victim alleged that it is clearly a case of dowry harassment as she had been tortured during her brief stay at her in-laws’ place before she left to Africa. Soumya during conversations over the phone from Africa too had informed here parents that her husband harassed and physically tortured her for dowry, they alleged. 

Meanwhile, neither Prem’s family nor relatives were present at the time of the postmortem at District Wenlock Hospital mortuary.