Soumya Kashyap, a 25-year-old woman from Mainpuri, committed suicide in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, after alleged persistent physical torture, abuse, and harassment by her husband, UP Police Constable Anurag Singh, and his relatives. The couple met in 2021 at PGI Hospital in Lucknow, where Soumya's brother was undergoing medical treatment. Anurag allegedly established a physical relationship with her under the promise of marriage but later refused to marry her. Following an FIR lodged by Soumya in 2023, department pressure led to their marriage in a temple in January 2024. After seven months of marriage, Anurag abandoned her, stopped returning home, and allegedly subjected her to physical beatings and dowry demands along with his relatives, including his brother-in-law Sanjay (a PSC officer in Raebareli) and Sanjay's advocate brother Ranjit. Soumya recorded a final video message alleging inaction by police due to Anurag's department influence before dying by suicide.
Country: India
State/Province: Uttar Pradesh, India
City/Region: Lucknow
Incident Type: Suicide
Relationship Status: Married
Relationship Duration: Approximately 7 months (marriage)
Incident Date: July 30, 2025
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Domestic Violence
The relationship followed a pattern of pre-marital coercion, legal pressure leading to forced marriage, subsequent domestic violence, and institutional evasion. Anurag initially avoided marriage after promising it, leading Soumya to file an FIR in 2023. Under police department pressure, Anurag agreed to marry her in January 2024. However, within months, Anurag abandoned Soumya, stopped living with her, and allegedly abused her alongside his family to force a second marriage, relying on institutional impunity due to his status as a police officer.
The victim explicitly named Anurag Singh (husband), Sanjay (brother-in-law posted in Raebareli PSC), and Ranjit (advocate) in a pre-suicide video. She stated that local police stations and senior officers failed to take action on her complaints due to Anurag's police background. The video and social media content form critical electronic evidence regarding harassment, dowry demands, and official neglect.
Initial confusion stemmed from official inertia and inaction when Soumya approached local police stations and the Superintendent of Police ('Captain'), where her complaints were reportedly ignored to protect the police department's image.
Soumya met Anurag in 2021 at Lucknow's PGI hospital while her brother was being treated. They entered a relationship, but when Soumya demanded marriage, Anurag refused until an FIR was registered in 2023. They married in January 2024 in Mainpuri. Months later, Anurag ceased cohabitation and initiated physical beatings and dowry harassment encouraged by his in-laws. After receiving no protection from law enforcement, Soumya recorded a video detailing her ordeal and took her life.
The risk factors included severe ongoing physical violence, dowry-related threats, emotional abandonment, and systematic denial of assistance by local authorities due to the accused being a police constable. The victim faced acute helplessness, exhausting all legal and administrative avenues before expressing intense hopelessness in her final video message.
Institutional bias and internal protection mechanisms within law enforcement can severely hinder domestic violence victims from securing intervention when the offender is a police official. Highlighting pre-suicide video statements as electronic evidence is vital for holding domestic abusers accountable.
Anurag's initial refusal to honor his marriage promise, necessitating an FIR in 2023 to compel him to marry, was a key early signal of reluctance and potential future conflict.
Soumya's sudden removal of her husband from her social media videos during the last two months, alongside her final pre-suicide video detailing dowry harassment and names of specific relatives, served as major evidence.
The self-recorded pre-suicide video statement naming Anurag Singh, Sanjay, and Ranjit, along with historical police filings from 2023 and recorded social media reels, form the strongest evidence.
In her pre-suicide video, Soumya stated: 'These people want to force me into a second marriage... They torture me so much, beat me a lot... They say, You brought no dowry, kill her... I went to the police station, to the captain, everywhere, I am tired.'
Initial reports focused on the video statement circulating online, leading to widespread public calls on senior authorities (including Uttar Pradesh leadership) to investigate police misconduct and hold the constable accountable.
It remains unclear whether formal department disciplinary proceedings and criminal arrest warrants were immediately executed against Constable Anurag Singh and his relatives following the release of the video.