India, May 23 -- Finding his son's mobile phone in a cupboard a month after he had died by suicide helped a retired policeman get his daughter-in-law and her lover charged for abetting his son's death. Before he died by suicide, the 28-year-old man, who ran an eatery in Dadar, had made a video recording, saying he was unable to suffer the alleged mental harassment by his wife and her lover, any longer. In the video, he also begged his father not to let his wife and her lover off the hook.

The mobile phone also contained other allegedly incriminating evidence, which led the Chunabhatti police to charge them with abetment to suicide under section 108 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023.

Police said the deceased's father had retired...