'Tortured for dowry, giving birth to girls': Kin of Bijnor woman Mandeep Kaur who ended her life in New York

Mandeep Kaur's video about domestic abuse went viral after she killed herself. Her family in UP's Bijnor have alleged that she was beaten up for dowry and giving birth to two girls.

A 30-year-old Sikh woman died by suicide after suffering years of alleged domestic abuse by her husband in New York, US. Mandeep Kaur, 30, committed suicide on August 3 after she posted a video online in which she spoke about years of domestic abuse by her husband Ranjodhbeer Singh Sandhu.

Her family in UP's Bijnor district is now scared for her two daughters — aged 6 and 4 — and wants them taken away from their father, Ranjodhbeer Singh Sandhu, whose family is also from Bijnor. “We should get their custody. I will raise them like a mother,” her younger sister, Kuldeep Kaur, told India Today.

Mandeep's sister said that her brother-in-law and his family used to harass Mandeep a lot because she gave birth to two daughters.

“I want her husband to get the strictest punishment possible. He should get the death sentence. I appeal to the Indian government to help us get justice,” she added.

“Her husband had been torturing her for years, demanding a son. But she said she wouldn't leave him as she couldn't raise her two daughters. We understood,” said the father of Mandeep Kaur.

Mandeep Kaur's family alleged that he demanded Rs 50 lakh to raise the daughters. “He told her he could barely repay the loan for his truck, so she should get the money for the daughters' expenses,” said her father.

Sandeep Singh, Kaur's elder brother, alleged, “Even her in-laws kept calling her and demanding a male child. They got scared when we filed a case in New York, but she helped him get away after they begged her. They got into her mind.”