Based on a complaint by Shraddha's father Uday Prakash Tiwari, her husband Ashish Pandey, father-in-law Santosh Pandey and mother-in-law Veena Pandey were arrested today on charges of murder.

According to her in-laws, Shraddha was found hanging from the ceiling fan at their house no 727 in Sector-37 at 8 am on Tuesday. Her husband Ashish said he had spoken to her on the phone around 7 am while he was on his way to pick up his parents from the New Delhi Railway station. "On finding her hanging we called in the neighbours and took her to Kailash Hospital where she was declared brought dead," he said. Ashish works as a personal development manager in a Delhi-based private firm.

The first report filed at the police station was of suicide but based on the complaint by Tiwari, who reached Noida from Allahabad today, the police filed a case of murder for dowry today. "Ashish is a drunkard and he, along with his parents, used to beat and harass my daughter for dowry quite often," Tiwari said.

Ashish and Shraddha got married in 2006. "She was an ambitious woman who wanted to work and pursue her career after she was forced to quit her job due to marriage," Samriddhi Tiwari, Shraddha's sister said.