Chennai man arrested after High Court upholds conviction in his wife’s death over dowry harassment

A 35-year-old man, who had allegedly been absconding after the Madras High Court upheld his conviction in a case relating to his wife’s suicide, was arrested by the Triplicane police on Monday (September 28, 2026) and remanded in prison.

The police identified the accused as Raja, 35, a resident of Pallavan Salai, Chennai. His wife Sudha died by suicide at their residence in S.M. Nagar on May 16, 2016. The couple had married in 2014 and had a one-year-old child.

The Triplicane police initially registered a case of unnatural death. During the investigation, the police found that Sudha had allegedly been subjected to cruelty over dowry and had been driven to suicide. The case was subsequently altered to include charges of dowry harassment and abetment of suicide. Raja was arrested in 2016 and remanded in judicial custody.