HYDERABAD: Nearly two months after the death of Ansu Kuruvilla, 27, whose body was found in her flat at Banjara Hills, the police have reportedly stumbled upon evidence suggesting that she could have committed suicide due to alleged harassment by her husband Ribu John.

"We have decided to alter the sections of law from suspicious death to 304-B (dowry death) of IPC," sources in the Crime Investigation Department (CID) said on Thursday.

The Banjara Hills police had initially registered a case of suspicious death under Section 174 of the CrPC However, investigation was entrusted to the CID after the woman's father, A.M. Kuruvilla, approached the Government raising suspicions over the investigation by the Banjara Hills police.

`Conflicting versions'

The woman, a call centre employee, was found hanging to the window grills in kneeling position, with a chunni tied around her neck, on June 19. Her father, Mr. Kuruvilla, had been arguing that his daughter's was not a routine suicide case.

"Firstly, it's not a suicide. Even if she killed herself, there should have been some disturbing and strong motive," he told The Hindu .

He alleged that there were conflicting versions. The post-mortem report stated that

Ms. Ansu's death was due to hanging. But the forensic doctors separately mentioned that the investigating officer must ascertain the nature of death from circumstantial evidence.

From this autopsy report to the circumstantial evidence, there were many points that led the woman's father to suspect foul play.

Two days before her death, Mr. Kuruvilla flew down from Chennai to Hyderabad to see her.

`In a happy mood'

"On June 18, she saw me off and was totally in a happy mood. She even called me up while I was travelling in the train. Next day my son-in-law called up and informed me that Ansu had committed suicide by hanging," he said.

Sources in the CID said the Banjara Hills police overlooked some pertinent points like the injury on the victim's head while probing reasons behind her `suicide.'

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