The deceased was identified as Nazia Khanam. Husb and Mohammad Azam Ali Khan (R) NEW DELHI: A 30-year-old pregnant woman working with the Ministry of Defence was found dead at her home in southwest Delhi’s Dwarka on Friday, police said.

Police have registered a case of cruelty and abetment of suicide against her husb and and in-laws after her family alleged she was harassed over dowry. Her husb and is currently absconding.

The deceased was identified as Nazia Khanam, who was posted as an Assistant Section Officer (ASO) in the Ministry of Defence. She had married Mohammad Azam Ali Khan on April 11 this year, who works as a supply chain manager in Gurgaon.

The woman was 3 months pregnant. 21pm.

A police team reached the spot and took the body into possession. “On the day of the incident, the husb and and wife had gone to a hospital for checkup and once they got back home, the couple got into an argument.

After this, she locked her husb and in one room and herself inside another room and took her life," a senior police officer said. On the same day, family members of Khanam appeared before the Executive Magistrate and submitted written statements.

At that stage, they did not raise any suspicion or allegation against her husb and or any other member of her matrimonial family, police said. “In their complaint to the SDM the family has alleged that the husb and was physically assaulting her and mentally harassing her which drove her to take the extreme step,” the senior police officer added.

Based on the subsequent complaint and the facts disclosed in it, police registered a case at Sector 23 police station under section 85 (Husb and or relative of husb and of a woman subjecting her to cruelty) and 108 (Abetment of suicide) of BNS. The exact circumstances leading to Khanam's death and the allegations made by her parents are being examined as part of the ongoing investigation.

Police said further legal action will follow after the facts are established.