A 26-year-old newly married software engineer allegedly died by suicide at her apartment in the Miyapur area of Hyderabad after being reportedly harassed by her husband for dowry.

Based on a complaint by her parents, a First Information Report (FIR) was registered at the Miyapur Police Station, and Ishita Yadav’s husband, Neeraj Bansal, was booked for allegedly harassing her for additional dowry.

The complaint said Bansal had been harassing Yadav for money and her family to invest in the start-up he was considering, and she was fed up with the constant harassment.

The police have taken Bansal, who hails from Madhya Pradesh, into custody and are interrogating him.

The police said that Yadav and Bansal had been in a relationship for nearly 5 years after meeting on social media. They said Yadav, who was from Bihar, and Bansal got married this February while working in Pune.

They moved to Hyderabad recently and were living in a flat in Miyapur.

On Thursday, Bansal called the police, saying that he had found his wife dead at their flat.

The police have sent her body to Gandhi Hospital for a post-mortem examination.