KONNI: The police have arrested a 58-year-old woman in the incident in which her daughter-in-law committed suicide at her husband's house. The arrested person is Mansurat, wife of Konni Iravan native Jamaluddin. Earlier, the police had registered a case against Mansurat for abetting suicide.

Shamna Salim (29), the wife of Mansurat's son Jaham, was found hanging in the bedroom on March 24. Although she was rushed to the Vandanam Medical College Hospital, she died on March 26. The police then registered a case of unnatural death as per the statement of Shamna's father. Inquest procedures were conducted in the presence of the scientific crime investigation department, fingerprint experts and police photographers. Following this, the post-mortem took place at the Medical College Hospital under the leadership of a Forensic Surgeon.

The doctor had confirmed that Shamna died by suicide. Upon searching the house, the investigation team found a suicide note from Shamna's room. As per the suicide note, Shamna had undergone constant mental torture from her husband's mother. According to the police, Shamna wrote that she was killing herself as she could not stand the tremendous mental suffering she was subjected to at her husband's house.