The Karnataka High Court on Monday sought a response from the state government with regard to permission and other legalities regarding burials while hearing a petition about the alleged unauthorised burial of a woman’s body on a man’s residential premises.

A bench of Justice Suraj Govindaraj heard a petition filed by Gopala Gowda, a resident of Thurandahally in Kolar, stating that his son and daughter-in-law had had altercations and several legal proceedings between them since their marriage in 2022. They had been living apart from each other for close to two years when she died by suicide in 2024 at her parental home, 25 km away from Gowda’s family home, as per the petition.

The daughter-in-law’s relatives filed a case against Gowda and his family members under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita

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