Wife of Telangana techie who committed suicide in US assaulted by in-laws at funeral

The family members of Madhukar Reddy Gudru, who committed suicide in the United States, allegedly assaulted his wife Swathi during his funeral in Bhongir near Hyderabad.

As per reports in The Times of India, Reddy’s body was brought to his home for last rites. When Swathi arrived, her in-laws and their relatives assaulted her in public view, alleging that she was responsible for Madhukar’s death.

Swathi lodged a complaint with the Bhongir police. Dismissing her in-laws’ allegations of foul play behind Madhukar’s death, Swathi said her husband had been going through a lot of depression for the last one year.

She told a TV channel that she herself had asked for divorce because of his mood swings. “I told his parents to come to the US and observe him. If his behaviour towards me was abnormal, it meant that he was no longer interested in me and the way out was divorce,” she said.

She added that she had medical records of Madhukar to prove that he was undergoing psychiatric counselling. She said one of the reasons for his depression was that the family was losing land in Bhongir, and the main reason was ‘work related’ as he himself had told doctors.

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