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Kin seeks probe into Priyanka's death

Last Updated 30 March 2016, 05:13 IST

Suspecting that Priyanka Kapoor, the Defence Colony-based event manager, might have been murdered and not committed suicide, her family members on Tuesday urged police to conduct a speedy probe into the matter.

“When we entered the room, her body was sitting on her knees, which didn’t look like it had fallen from the ceiling fan,” said Dimpy Kapoor, Priyanka’s younger sister.
“There were separate marks on her wrist, apart from bruises, which suggested that someone might have grabbed her wrist tightly,” she added.

Although a suicide letter was found in her bedroom, Priyanka’s sister claimed that police found the letter only after extensively searching the room for a long time.
“Priyanka might have written the letter sometime back in the past while contemplating the suicide move.

However, if indeed she was sure of taking her life, she shouldn’t have hidden the letter like this in her room.

It should have been kept near her body. It was just a coincidence that the letter got found,” Dimpy said.

At a press conference called at a temple near the house where the death had occurred, Priyanka’s family members also blamed police of not arresting Priyanka’s mother-in-law and brother-in-law.

Her mother-in-law is a co-accused in the case.

“Both her mother-in-law and brother-in-law are guilty in the case. Priyanka had several times confided in her about the mental and physical torture she had been going through the hands of her husband Nitin, but she never took her side,” Dimpy said.

“She, in fact, told Priyanka to go back to her parents’ house if she is not happy here.
Her brother-in-law also never tried to stop his brother, and himself was an abettor in the torture,” she alleged.

Meanwhile, Delhi Police have written to their Mumbai counterparts seeking more details about the rape case which has been registered against Nitin Chawla’s name in Mumbai.
According to one of the closest friends of Priyanka, she got to know about the rape case few weeks after getting married to Chawla.

“One day Nitin told Priyanka about a woman in Mumbai who has been demanding money from him to settle a rape case that she had filed against him there,” said Rukmani, Priyanka’s friend.

“We met in a restaurant where she told me about the rape case against Nitin, and because of which he has been under lot of financial strain.

It upset her a lot,” Rukmani added.

On Monday, police came to know about a rape case being registered against Chawla for sexually assaulting an aspiring actress in Mumbai.

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(Published 30 March 2016, 05:13 IST)

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