Pregnant Kerala Woman Texts Mother Before Suicide; Family Alleges Domestic Abuse News24 –

A 23-year-old pregnant woman, Faseela, allegedly died by suicide at her husband’s home in Vellangallur, Thrissur, on July 29, 2025, due to domestic violence. Before her death, she sent WhatsApp messages to her mother detailing the harassment she endured. The following day, her husband, Noufal, and mother-in-law, Ramla, were arrested and remanded to judicial custody by the Irinjalakuda police, based on allegations of abuse.

Police said the woman told her mother that she was pregnant with her second child when her husband kicked her in the stomach many times and broke her hand. She also alleged abuse by her mother-in-law. In one of her final messages, Faseela texted her mother that she “otherwise they will kill me.” 

The case was registered under abetment of suicide and other offences. After the inquest procedure from the Government Medical College in Thrissur, her body was handed over to her family. Faseela is survived by a son. 

Faseela’s suicide is the most recent in a series of tragedies involving Malayali women trapped in abusive marriages and women tragically taking the extreme step.

On July 8, 2025, Vipanchika Mani, a 33-year-old woman from Kollam, Kerala, allegedly killed her one-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Vybhavi, before taking her own life by hanging in their apartment in Sharjah’s Al Nahda area. Residing in Sharjah with her husband, Nidheesh Valiyaveettil, and their daughter, Vipanchika detailed severe mental and physical abuse in a six-page suicide note posted on her Facebook account.

“I used to sit quietly and suffer from their torture. They used to say that the wedding was not grand enough, that the dowry was not enough, and that I did not provide a car. They used to call me homeless, broke and said that I lived off begging. Even if they had enough money to survive, they tortured me for my salary,” the note stated.

Mani claimed in the note that she had “been beaten like a dog,” she claimed that their sexuality was based on the pornographic material that her husband had watched and told her that if she did not do the same thing that he had watched, she was not normal. She claimed that when she was seven months pregnant, he deprived her of food, and at one stage had thrown her out of the house.