Mumbai, July 28 -- The police arrested a government official and his mother for alleged abetment of suicide after his 42-year old wife took her life on Saturday night. The duo had allegedly been harassing the woman for money. According to the police, the deceased's brother said that his sister's in-laws had been harassing her over a dowry issue, and the mental and physical harassment had driven her to suicide. The couple had gotten married in 2003, but her mother-in-law would taunt her for not paying a significant dowry. The brother told the police that her husband would often beat his wife and pressure her to ask her father for money. The police said that in 2023 the father had allegedly given the accused Rs.12 lakh, and in 2024 another Rs.10 lakh. The victim's brother said that the accused would insult the victim and tell her she did not deserve to live with him. The brother added that the accused assaulted the deceased with a stick after she went to meet her sick father who had cancer. The police said that elders of both families had decided to meet on Sunday to address the harassment, but after the accused refused to go, the deceased hanged herself. Based on the brother's complaint, the police registered a case under section 108 (abetment of suicide) of the BNS....